The films of Isaac Julien (London, 1960) are a blend of fact and fiction, aesthetics and critical reflection. Over the past few years, an architectural arrangement of the projection screens has become…
Bang! A gunshot! A gangster wearing a Trilby hat, a femme fatale, a detective standing in the rain on a dimly lit streetcorner. The silhouette of a smoking gun. A gloomy voice-over reports... The…
Dreamlife , the first feature film by Dutch artist Melvin Moti (Rotterdam, 1977), will be shown in De Pont’s new wing this fall. Moti is particularly known for his short, often abstract and tranquil…
Yorishiro 依代 is a sequel to the film Shio 潮.Together the films are part of a project consisting of three short films in which the location, the small Japanese island Yonaguni where wild horses roam,…
Body parts on hung from a clothesline, mannequins that come to life and human teeth as currency: the Silvia Martes film The Revolutions That Did (Not) Happen (2021) quickly gives rise to an ominous…
Melvin Moti (Rotterdam, 1977) usually makes silent films: layered narratives with which he tries to get a grip on immaterial things such as time and space in order to place our perception in a broader…
Body parts hung from a clothesline, mannequins that come to life and human teeth as currency: the Silvia Martes film The Revolutions That Did (Not) Happen (2021), which will premiere in the project…
Though several important works by Tacita Dean are part of De Pont’s collection, a large exhibition dedicated to her entire body of work has not been held before in Tilburg. Recently she has exhibited…
Over the past few years Fiona Tan (Pekan Baru, Indonesia, 1966) has received a great deal of recognition for her film and video installations. In 2001 her work was shown at the Yokohama Triennial and…
For more than twenty years, De Pont has been following the work of Tacita Dean. In 1998 she was given a solo exhibition at the museum, and two of her 16mm films were added to the permanent collection:…