Film preview: Figuring Landscapes, London

Tate Modern, SE1, Fri to 8 Feb

A selection of artists' films that let the background take the foreground. Landscape, as cheap and bountiful an asset to film-makers as ever there was, can say more than a mere performer ever can. What it says, though, depends on how it is presented. The wildly different topographies and scenery of the UK and Australia, are explored here in short video and film segments, compiled into themed programmes. The impact of man on the land - and vice versa - is mapped by such artists as Andrew Kötting, David Theobold, John Gillies and Sofia Dahlgren, who find beauty and profundity in such sights as oil drilling platforms, the changing seasons (Dahlgren's Winter Light) and an ice-cream van weaving through a traffic jam.

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