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From Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes, the first film made entirely of surveillance footage, to Lynn Hershman Leeson's Hitchcockian Vertighost, watch the trailer to see what's in store

Explore Art Basel's Film Program

Art Basel's film program will feature 16 works by and about artists such as <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/events/detail/7081/Art-Basel-Film-Feature-Program?openTime=3345"> Ai Weiwei </a>, <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/events/detail/7085/Art-Basel-Film-Special-Screening-curated-by-Marian-Masone?openTime=3349"> Yayoi Kusama</a> and <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/events/detail/7079/Art-Basel-Film-Short-Film-Program-Taking-Art-for-a-Walk?openTime=3342"> Nancy Holt/ Robert Smithson</a>. Curated by Maxa Zoller, highlights include <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/search?q=R%C3%A4+di+Martino%27">Rä di Martino’s</a> <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/events/detail/7077/Art-Basel-Film-Feature-Program?openTime=3340">Controfigura</a>, (stand-in) (2017), which unites actors, stand-ins, and crew and splices off- and on-camera situations in a non-linear narrative. Vertighost (2017), <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artist/16751/Lynn-Hershman-Leeson"> Lynn Hershman Leeson's</a> homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, investigates the role of the Doppelgänger in the film.Discover our detailed film program <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/events/browse?showCityId=1&amp;eventTypes=-4"> here</a>, and read our interview with curator Maxa Zoller on why the artists' film is in a new era <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/news/a-new-species-of-filmmakers-is-born--says-art-basel-s-film-curator-maxa-zoller"> here</a>.

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From Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes, the first film made entirely of surveillance footage, to Lynn Hershman Leeson's Hitchcockian Vertighost, watch the trailer to see what's in store