Film by Tacita Dean is 11 minutes long playing on a continuous loop beamed onto the wall of the darkened Turbine Hall. It is soundless and filmed in black and white and colour in a portrait format rather than in the wide screen format that we are more used to. The images flicker from one to the next, they held my attention and have a strange beauty.
Film is not my favourite Turbine Hall commission in The Unilever Series, it doesn't move you in the way The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson did but what does? Maybe the Rothko room at Tate. I enjoyed it as much as most others though such as Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth (the crack) and Carsten Holler's Slides, and more than others, Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds for instance didn't really grab me, possibly because I didn't get to see it until they the Tate had roped it off on health grounds (mind you locking him up was a bit harsh).
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