Film by Tacita Dean at Tate Modern – in pictures

Tacita Dean's commission follows in the footsteps of artists including Juan Muñoz, Bruce Naumann, Olafur Eliasson and Doris Salcedo Photograph: Ray Tang / Rex Features

Projected from a booth specially built into the Turbine Hall bridge, Dean's Film is about the specificity of the medium, writes Adrian Searle in his review Photograph: Ian Nicholson / PA

Her work, said Dean, is both an act of mourning and an argument for the future. Simply called Film, it is shot on 35mm and painstakingly edited by her and her alone, writes Charlotte Higgins Photograph: Ray Tang / Rex Features

Tacita Dean: 'This beautiful medium, which we invented 125 years ago, is about to go,' she said. 'How long have we got?' Photograph: Ian Nicholson / PA

Dean is best known for her atmospheric and cinematic works in 16mm film Photograph: Sarah Lee for The Guardian

Of being asked to occupy the Turbine Hall, Dean said: 'I am not known for making works on a spectacular scale, so I had to go somewhere I had never been before. The Turbine Hall commission is about the spectacular: there is no getting away from that', reports Charlotte Higgins Photograph: Ian Nicholson / PA

'A silent movie, Film is a rejoinder to the digital noise of the modern world. It recalls early cinema and experiments with colour, cinema as art abstraction and as home movie, structuralist film and underground cinema', writes Adrian Searle in his review Photograph: Sarah Lee for The Guardian

'I am in no way anti-digital,' Dean said at the press conference. 'I want to make that perfectly clear. But I love film and I don't want to lose my ability to make it and I think I probably will' Photograph: Ian Nicholson / PA