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…
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…
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…
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…