Tacita Dean: talks about Boots, 2003.(1000 words)

In the voice-over to Sans Soleil (1982), Chris Marker offers a typically aphoristic remark: "We do not remember; we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten." The linkage between history and memory, their common constructedness, is also evident in the films of Tacita Dean, who, while ostensibly celebrating the formal languages of structural film--duration, framing, sound, and editing--engages the process of memory and resignification that sets in when history lets go of its protagonists, and their actions, objects, and characters become forgotten.

Almost all of Dean's ...

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