Film artworks donated to the Tate
Artworks including footage of the 1966 World Cup final and the filmed goings-on of a dysfunctional family are being donated to the Tate. Nine film and video works are being handed to the gallery by Artangel, which has commissioned the pieces over the...
Artworks including footage of the 1966 World Cup final and the filmed goings-on of a dysfunctional family are being donated to the Tate.
Nine film and video works are being handed to the gallery by Artangel, which has commissioned the pieces over the last 20 years, and the artists themselves.
They include US artist Paul Pfeiffer’s work The Saints (2006), which shows original footage of the famous England and Germany World Cup final – but played next to a monitor showing one man running around the pitch at Wembley.
Richard Billingham’s 1998 film Fish Tank is also being donated and shows the artist at home in his family’s West Midlands council flat.
He films his mother, brother and alcoholic father as well as various pets in the “natural history film of a dysfunctional family”.
Other works include Douglas Gordon’s Feature Film (1999), which projects a portrait of James Conlon conducting the score for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo.
Cameron Jamie’s 2003 film Spook House shows front lawns transformed into cemeteries, kitchens as mausoleums and dismembered “bodies” prepared for cannibal feasts.
The Tate plans to show the videos in either its London or regional galleries.