Gravesend is a seventeen-minute film about the mineral coltan. The film is often being shown in combination with Unexploded , a recording of less than one minute which McQueen made in Basra in 2003,…
Long Sorrow , says Sala, is the result of a ‘rather particularly set-up situation, rather than a narrative structure. It’s more a succession of tinted situations, colored by moments of tension,…
Since the late eighties Douglas has been exploring audiovisual media, from photography, panorama and silent film to television and video. Film is a particular fascination of his. In Overture, from…
Since 2011 the Brazilian-German duo Bárbara Wagner (1980, Brasília) and Benjamin de Burca (1975, Munich) have been producing film and video installations in close collaboration with the musicians and…
Shio 潮 is part of a project consisting of three short films in which the location, the small Japanese island Yonaguni where wild horses roam, plays a prominent role. Since 2015 Dumas has studied this…
Fiona Banner's early works took the form of 'wordscapes' or 'still films' - blow-by-blow accounts written in her own words of feature films including Point Break (1991) and The Desert (1994). These…
Isaac Julien’s Better Life (Ten Thousand Waves) is the haunting single-screen version of the nine-channel installation Ten Thousand Waves , which premiered at the 17th Biennale of Sydney in 2010. The…
Fiona Tan has created Ascent through a montage of over 4000 found still images of Mt. Fuji from the past 150 years. Ascent unfolds as a contemplative visual essay. The work is at once a rumination on…
Rosemarie Trockel used these little cars in a film that she made for the 1999 Venice Biennale. Her installation consisted of three films projected in three different rooms, representing the past, the…
Inspiration for One Hundred Steps (2020) came from Irish filmmaker Bob Quinn’s documentaries about the historical relationship between Ireland and North Africa. According to Quinn, who makes a cameo…