From October 2011 to March 2012, the Tate Modern in London staged one of the most important artistic statements about analog technology in the digital era: Tacita Dean’s installation FILM. Standing thirteen meters high at the far end of the gallery’s Turbine Hall, Dean’s FILM was clearly more than just a film; it was a monumental paean to the analog medium that has, since the end of the twentieth century, been in rapid decline. Dean’s installation, with its epic proportions and cathedral-like setting, asked
Source: Project MUSE – Slow, Methodical, and Mulled Over: Analog Film Practice in the Age of the Digital