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John Adderley
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 Disappearance At Sea   by Tacita Dean
SHOWN AT TATE MODERN FOR one year 2006/2007
cinematography by John Adderley
16mm anamorphic

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 Disappearance at Sea is a film of unbelievable beauty set around Crowhurst and the Berwick lighthouse, and Disappearance at Sea 11, is the mythic story of Tristan, floating alone in a coracle, for seven days and seven nights, until wounded and weary he finds the healing of Isolde. -------- Jeanette Winterson -- The Guardian
Born, bred and educated in Australia, I started with the camera department of the ABC in my native Sydney. I came to the UK in 1971, joining the BBC's camera department and over the next twenty two years photographed some ninety complete productions. I am experienced on both film and videotape, having worked across a broad spectrum of programme genres; from Schools Television to Drama. I have worked in almost every country, from the mountains of Afghanistan, to the sewers of the Ukraine, from the plains of Africa to the jungles of New York City. I pride myself on being able to develop a close, easy relationship with directors and I am always in demand.
Cinematography for TACITA DEAN
 
DOP for Tacita Dean
Hugo Boss Prize Winner
for the film "KODAK" SHOWN at the GUGGENHEIM New York 2007
Shown recently at
Tate Britain
and
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
6 June - 2 Aug 2009
 Tacita Dean - Kodak

Still from Kodak, 2006. 16mm color and black-and-white film, with optical sound, 44 minutes. Edition of 4, 1 A.P. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London

 
 
   BOOTS    (16mm Anamorphic film projected)
shown at
Berlin Film Festival
Tate St Ives and
Royal Institute of British Architects
 
 

Tacita Dean's most ambitious film work to date, Boots , receives its UK premier at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The three screen 16mm film is a study of memory, architecture and time. Filmed in a deserted Art-Deco villa called the casa Serralves in Porto, Portugal, Its central figure ---the charismatic club-footed figure 'Boots' tours the empty rooms of the grand house recounting perhaps real perhaps fictional tales of the past lives and loves of those who may once of inhabited this place.