About the exhibition (source: Tate Modern webpage)
Come and see the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series by the celebrated British filmmaker Tacita Dean at Tate Modern. FILM is an 11-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as opposed to digital. The work evokes the monumental mysterious black monolith from the classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film feels like a surreal visual poem, including images from the natural world among others, with the epic wall of the Turbine Hall showing through, in a montage of black and white, colour, and hand-tinted film.
The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean
Tate Modern
11 October 2011 – 11 March 2012
In this exhibition you can see paintings of unidentified persons. Some of the painting are thought to be of famous people from history such as Queen Elizabeth I, the young pretender to the throne Lady Arabella Stuart, and the poet and courtier Sir Thomas Overbury. But, these suggestions are much debated. Take a look yourself and make up your own opinion.
