Film

The best movies and artists’ films of 2011

The land and the sea; the mapping of clandestine journeys; the intertwining of personal stories and politics

A digital approach to sculpture and installation; physical comedy and the very recent past

In recent years, artists in the UK have increasingly turned to narrative cinema and mainstream TV, a shift that has coincided with a renewed interest in the video and new-media practices of the 1970s and ’80s. How does this relate to issues of funding, ideology, duration and display? A round-table discussion with artists Ed Atkins, Melanie Gilligan, Anja Kirschner and Ben Rivers

Slippages and the peculiarities of language; its problems and potential

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Ryan Trecartin’s immersive video environments are amplified reflections of the joy, madness and ambiguity of our culture

The past weeks have seen the unexpected force of Hurricane Irene wreak havoc along its path, leaving us meteorologically bewildered and with a newfound existential barometer.

What have you been watching? 26 artists and writers respond to the last two decades

Sigmund Freud goes to the movies

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list movies that have influenced their practice

The installations, collages and films of Andro Wekua construct a filmic dream-space of violent fantasies and sexual perversion

Dealing with the lapses between narrative content and medium, Rosa Barba’s film and sculptural work is a meditation on memory and vision

Marian Goodman Gallery

David Zwirner Gallery & Salomon Contemporary

The best motion pictures and moving images of 2010

Q. What do you wish you knew? Q. French, the cure for AIDS, and how to deal with male pattern baldness.

French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy talks about subjects ranging from everyday life to film, the body and the soul

What do the first art works and recent speculations about early man tell us about today?

Social histories and spectral fictions in the films of Elizabeth Price