Throughout his career, Douglas Gordon has engaged in an ongoing reflection on the motion picture, examining the relationship between cinema and our common knowledge and perception of it. In altering, monumentalizing and alienating our collective understandings of film, he has visualized, pictured and 'sculpted' time. Motion/Pictures, the book accompanying an exhibition that focuses on Gordon's filmic work, explores the relationship between film and psychoanalysis, and the way in which these systems of thought have affected the idea of individual biography.