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…
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…
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…
Sunrise (2009), an 18 minute video installation, thrusts viewers into near-total darkness, requiring their eyes to acclimatise to the film which depicts a nocturnal scene inside a villa. A maid is…
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…
The film Gravesend uses a documentary approach to focus on the mining of coltan, employed in the manufacture of cell phones, laptops and other high-tech apparatus. The film cuts between two sites: a…
The Russian Ending , by the British artist Tacita Dean, is a series of twenty photogravure etchings. Depicted in each print is a disaster or a dramatic moment: from shipwrecks and battlefields to…