Tate Modern-The Turbine Hall.

Last week I visited Tate Modern for the second time since moving to London, the main reason for visit two was the new addition to the Turbine Hall, Tacita Deans film piece. 
A brief description of Tacita Dean's piece:
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 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. (http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unilever2011/default.shtm)

A still I took of Tacita Dean's film in the Turbine Hall. 
When analysing this piece there are some key factors that I would pull out to think about: 
Size, sound, venue, film contents itself, and how do these components fit together and compliment the work. 
What I really liked was the atmosphere that the piece created, sort of like a drive in movie...
with the busy noise of the rest of the turbine hall behind, and this darker slightly screened off bit, with a soundless film depicting images of nature, amongst other things and sitting in front of the film wherever there was a space, lots of silhouettes of couples and groups of friends, the odd sound of nearby footsteps walking in or out.. Peaceful yet with a excited busy back drop (the other half of the turbine hall). 

Whilst there (turbine hall) it was nice to see remnants of previous exhibits from the Unilever Series. 




Doris Salcedo- Shibboleth 


now filled in..


Tacita Dean -extended
This separate visit to Tate happened I'm ashamed to say quit e a few weeks ago, luckily I wrote some notes, and some thoughts might remain in my head which I will attempt to drag up. 
This second visit was to have thoughts about the curation. So the things I was thinking about for example was the height of the screen which Dean's film is being projected on. The space between the sort of entrance to the work and the screen. The impact that this has. I noticed a bench has been installed in the space between my last visit and this. - which would suggest the curator/artist wanted to give an indication of the best place to view the artwork. 
There's still a vast space between the long set of benches (dark and leather) and the screen. As a curious individual, I felt I wanted to explore this space and see how intimate I wanted to be with the film myself. So ignoring the benches, which were fairly full I lay down about 3metres away from the bottom of the screen.. previously I had sat further back near where the benches now are. Being closes definitely was a whole different experience, and it was quite nice to view the ceiling of the turbine hall, and appreciate it from a sort of star gazing point of view.