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Here is Always Somewhere Else is a 2008 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

directed by Rene Daalder

Rene Daalder

Rene Daalder is a Dutch writer and director. He lives in Los Angeles...

and co-produced and edited by Aaron Ohlmann

Aaron Ohlmann

Aaron Ohlmann is a Los Angeles-based editor, producer, and documentarian who works on projects that focus on the arts, international politics, and social architecture.He has worked on projects for the Discovery Channel, PBS, and VPRO...

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The film is about the life and work of Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader was a Dutch conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker. He lived in Los Angeles for the last 10 years of his life. Ader's work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances...

, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic. As seen through the eyes of fellow emigrant filmmaker Rene Daalder

Rene Daalder

Rene Daalder is a Dutch writer and director. He lives in Los Angeles...

, the picture becomes a sweeping overview of contemporary art films as well as an epic saga of the transformative powers of the ocean. Featuring work from artists Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean is an English visual artist who works primarily in film. She is one of the Young British Artists, and was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998.-Life and work:...

, Rodney Graham

Rodney Graham

Rodney Graham is an artist and musician born in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He is most often associated with the Vancouver School...

, Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers was a Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works....

, Ger van Elk

Ger van Elk

Ger van Elk is a Dutch artist who works with sculptures, painted photographs, installations and film. His work is generally seen as conceptual art and arte povera. Together with Marinus Boezem, Wim T...

, Charles Ray

Charles Ray

Charles Ray was a silent film star. Extremely popular in a series of films casting him in juvenile roles, primarily rural young men, Ray's career faded as he lost his youthful looks- he also had a reputation of being demanding and having an outsized ego...

, Wim T. Schippers

Wim T. Schippers

Wim T. Schippers is a Dutch artist, comedian and voice actor, loosely related to the international Fluxus-movement....

, Chris Burden

Chris Burden

Christopher "Chris" Burden is an American artist working in performance, sculpture, and installation art.-Education:Burden studied for his B.A...

, Fiona Tan

Fiona Tan

Fiona Tan , is an artist in photography as well as film and video installations. She grew up in Australia and currently lives in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst and teaches at the postgraduate academy De...

, Pipilotti Rist

Pipilotti Rist

Elisabeth Charlotte "Pipilotti" Rist , is a visual artist who works with video, film, and moving images which are often displayed as projections.-Life and career:...

and many others.

The film was released on DVD in November 2008.

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