Tacita Dean's fascination with film is partly nurtured by the arrival of new digital techniques. Due to great changes that have taken place in the medium, artists are challenged to analyze anew, as it…
Isaac Julien directed a number of notable documentaries in which fiction and reality are used in tandem, before making a ‘real’ feature film in 1991 in the form of Young Soul Rebels, which immediately…
Silvia Martes (b. 1985, Eindhoven) studied in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, where she completed her postdoctoral residency in 2021. That year…
Since the 1980s, Willie Doherty has been a pioneering figure in contemporary art film and photography. At once highly seductive and visually disorientating, Doherty’s artworks tend to begin as…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Introduction A sports car with cat’s eyes, a poodle on a trampoline and a parade of giraffes – the German artist Raphaela Vogel (Nuremberg, 1988) establishes surprising connections in her work. In her…
Bárbara Wagner (1980, Brasília) and Benjamin de Burca (1975, Munich) have been an artistic duo since 2011. They live and work in Recife. Their video works are hybrid musical collages that take shape…