Tacita Dean at Tate Modern

See Tacita Dean's new work now at the Tate Modern in the Turbine Hall as part of the Unilever Series: "Entitled FILM, the work is an eleven-minute silent 35mm looped film projected onto a monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. It is the first work in The Unilever Series to be devoted to the moving image."

  In another interpretation of 'The End Of', Dean's work has been called a "love letter" or "tribute" to the dying medium of celluloid.  See reviews of her latest work from The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Independent.  Full details of the exhibition can be found in the Press Release here.

Look here to watch Tacita Dean speak about film and here to take part in a poll asking: which do prefer, film or digital?    

2001: A Space Odyssey Screening

We shall be screening 2001: A Space Odyssey after our conference at The Gulbenkian, with an introduction from our keynote, Peter Kramer (more details to follow!)  Check out Peter Kramer's BFI Film Classics book on the film

See Evan Calder Williams' take on 'The End Of' in Combined and Uneven Apocalypse: "From the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving through the films, political tendencies, and recurrent crises of late capitalism, Evan Calder Williams paints a black toned portrait of the dream and nightmare images of a global order gone very, very wrong. Situating itself in the defaulting financial markets of the present, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse glances back toward a messy history of zombies, car wrecks, tidal waves, extinction, trash heaps, labour, pandemics, wolves, cannibalism, and general nastiness that populate the underside of our cultural imagination. Every age may dream the end of the world to follow, but these scattered nightmare figures are a skewed refraction of the normal hell of capitalism. The apocalypse isn't something that will happen one day: it's just the slow unveiling of the catastrophe we've been living through for centuries. Against any fantasies of progress, return, or reconciliation, Williams launches a loathing critique of the bleak present and offers a graveside smile for our necessary battles to come."

See Dr Peter Stanfield's notes on the book!