Internationally renowned visual artist and analogue film activist, Tacita Dean's new film project, 'JG', was presented at the Arcadia University's Art Gallery, Feb.7. The film can be viewed till April 21 at the campus.

Dean's 26 ½ minute film features 35mm film shots taken in the deserts of Utah and Southern California. The shots are in color and black & white anamorphic with optical sound.

The university authorised the project and it was funded by the PEW Center. It was inspired by her correspondence with late British author J.G. Ballard.

Dean utilised her own special system of 'aperture gate masking' for the project. It involves a certain stencilling process which exposes and re-exposes the negative within a single film frame.

This film is a sequel in technique to 'Film', Dean's 2011 project for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.

Dean is a Britain born, Berlin-based artist, and was actively associated with the Young British Artists movement of the 1980s.

Arcadia University is a private university in Pennsylvania and sits on a 79-acre land with a student population of more than 4,000.

It features Grey Towers Castle and a National Historic Landmark.

The universities' alumni include some prominent names from the country - Julianne Boyd (theater director); Dorothy Germain Porter (amateur golf champion); M. Susan Savage (Secretary of State of Oklahoma and former Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma); Edith Schaeffer (religious author and co-founder of the L'Abri study center); Anna Deavere Smith (actress) among others.