Thursday, November 3, 2011

Tacita Dean's "FILM"

An work by artist Tacita Dean at The Tate in London that is related to the current assignment. The Tate describes it:
FILM is an 11-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as opposed to digital. The work evokes the monumental mysterious black monolith from the classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film feels like a surreal visual poem, including images from the natural world among others, with the epic wall of the Turbine Hall showing through, in a montage of black and white, colour, and hand-tinted film.
There is also a profile of Dean in The New Yorker's Oct 31ist issue, unfortunately you need to be a subscriber to read it....maybe you are?http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/31/111031fa_fact_eakin

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