The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean

The Observer“Not just banal but fatally boring...” Move closer, sit down and watch, and the jaw clamps shut again, awe turning first to disappointment, then to irritation...

this is london“One of the best works in the series so far...” Dean has more than risen to the challenge, creating a mesmerising and at times stunningly beautiful tribute to the medium of film...

The Independent“A moving tribute to the beauty of a dying art...” She pushes and experiments with the constraints that have defined a glorious cinematic history – look what can still be done here...

Financial Times“Rewards attention and contemplation...” Though lacking the force of astonishment and single-gesture aplomb of some of the more dramatic Turbine Hall installations, “FILM” invites the long view and declares an expressive individual sensibility...

Guardian“The more I think about it, the richer and more complex it gets...” It recalls early cinema and experiments with colour, cinema as art abstraction and as home movie, structuralist film and underground cinema. It is cool and passionate, lovely and weirdly old-fashioned...

The Telegraph“'Film’ isn’t one of the greats in the series...” But it’s a successful attempt to grapple with that impossible space by grabbing the viewer’s attention and holding it long enough to make us want to return to see it all over again...