London Art Award Nomination Tacita Dean: '[on film] Totally new and oddly out of time, with its cutaway images, hand-painted mountains, rivers of lightning like pulsing nerves.'

Tacita Dean’s artwork, Film, is just that; a film installation. The screen towering high in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall is absolutely vast (13 metres), as is the adoring statement. It is a swan song of one art-form in particular; the death of 16mm film production in the UK. But, just as the drunken cousin at a wake will tell you, this is a celebration of a life that was, rather than a bereavement of what no longer is.

The Guardian gives this installation 5 stars, “totally new and oddly out of time, with its cutaway images, hand-painted mountains, rivers of lightning like pulsing nerves”, and this giant homage comes from a successful career of pieces created on 16mm film for Dean. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1998, and Winner of this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Award, a rare statement from the artist encapsulates her winning filmic formula, “I court chaos in the filming because I know I have this period later when it will just be me and it."A stand-off then between disorder and the cutting table; “Film” is a lover’s tribute writ large on one of Britain’s most notorious places of art. Frith Street Gallery