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…
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…
The artist Steve McQueen (London, 1969), who lives in the Netherlands, will be representing Great Britain at this summer's 53rd Venice Biennial . At the last edition of this event held two years ago,…
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…