Film still from Tacita Dean's 2011 installation FILM

Tacita Dean: FILM

Now showing18 September 2026 – 27 February 2027Free

The US premiere of Dean's 2011 vertical 35mm installation, an 11-minute silent celebration of analog photochemical film.

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A waterfall pours down a screen 31 feet tall, and the film's own sprocket holes run down the edges beside it. Tacita Dean made FILM for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2011, turning an anamorphic lens on its side so the projection reads as one giant strip of 35mm.

It runs 11 silent minutes, and every collage effect was made in the camera with glass mattes and masking: a street clock, a smokestack, a flickering bulb, an ostrich egg. You can sit on the benches or walk up until your shadow lands on the image. This is its first showing in the US, in the Foundation's cavernous theater gallery. In a town where every second friend works in post, here are 11 minutes with all the effects done in camera.

Time Out called it "a triumphant touting of film's resurgence" and says to climb to the mezzanine to look into the projection booth. Entry is free with a timed reservation, Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm.

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A 31-foot vertical screen, sprocket holes matted into the picture, plays eleven silent minutes shot on 35mm. You can see the projection booth from the mezzanine. Time Out called it "a triumphant touting of film's resurgence".

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The sprocket holes
Dean matted the edges of the film strip into the picture itself, so perforations run down both sides of the 31-foot screen.
The ostrich egg
It sits on a window ledge, then grows until it fills the whole Turbine Hall, as Sarah Kent described it at Tate in 2011.
Falling balloons and bubbles
They drift lazily from the top of the tall frame to the bottom, the vertical format doing the work.
The projection booth
From a window on the mezzanine you can look into the booth where the 35mm print is running.