Tacita Dean is best known for her compelling 16mm films, in which the specific qualities of filmmaking are of central importance. She takes its essential features, such as its analogue constitution and the importance of light in creating meaning, and exploits them in order to formulate her own cinematic language. Kodak was shot in the last remaining Kodak factory that makes analogue film. The work was prompted by Dean’s regret over analogue film’s impending obsolescence and her ambivalence about digital technology. She has written that, for her, digital ‘just does not have the means to create poetry; it neither breathes nor wobbles, but tidies up our society, correcting it and then leaves no trace’. The French factory in which Kodak was filmed now only manufactures polyester film and emulsion for radiology, to meet the demand for x-ray. The film documents the processes involved in a manner that characteristically borders on the meditative.