Direction: William Kentridge

Direction William Kentridge

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis Felix in Exile is the fifth of eight films that complete the Drawings for Projection series, on which William Kentridge worked from 1989 to 1999.

Direction William Kentridge

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis The film sees a businessman (the Soho Eckstein figure from Kentridge’s earlier films) standing on a hotel balcony watching the waves. Time passes, as the sea rolls back andforth in endless repetitions. We as viewers observed from his point of...

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis The short animated movie shows a column of people, mainly refugees, carrying all kinds of symbolic objects with them. The movie criticizes the injustice and violence done in the South African past. The movie is shown on eight big screens...

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis Drawing, literally, from the story of Daniel and Belshazzar, William Kentridge’s film Weighing… and Wanting re-examines the legacy of Belshazzar’s message in post-apartheid South Africa.

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis A flipbook / stop-motion animation film composed of hundreds of drawings by artist William Kentridge superimposed on pages of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and other lexicons and encyclopedias.

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis A journey into the mines provides a visual representation of a journey into the conscience of Kentridge’s invented character, Soho Eckstein, the white South African property owner who exploits the resources of land and black human labour which are under...

Direction William Kentridge

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis In City Deep, the “zama zama” miners and the landscape merge into artworks hanging in the Johannesburg Art Gallery, itself built during the heyday of gold mining in Johannesburg. Wandering the exhibition spaces is a deeply contemplative Soho Eckstein, gazing...

Direction William Kentridge

Cast William Kentridge · Kyle Shepherd

Synopsis Inspired in part by Charlie Chaplin, Dziga Vertov and the innovative wit of early cinema, pioneering South African artist William Kentridge offers a cinematic experience of the creative process during the plague years of COVID. Interconnected yet distinct episodes introduce...

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis William Kentridge’s ironic tribute to his hometown, animated on the basis of 25 drawings, is the first film of his “Drawing for Protection” cycle, in which he unfolds the triangle between Johannesburg building tycoon Soho Eckstein, his wife, and the...

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis Other Faces returns to the figure of Soho Eckstein, the industrialist and developer who is the key protagonist of the Drawings for Projection series. In this cycle of nine films created from 1989 through 2003, Kentridge addresses the doubling and...

Direction William Kentridge

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis William Kentridge’s Monument is a captivating short animated film about the unveiling of a statue dedicated to the South African work force. This monument comes to life, and continues to suffer under the elite white regime. This celebration and memorialization...

Direction William Kentridge

Synopsis Soho Eckstein is portrayed as interconnected with both images of the social injustices and upheaval of South Africa and his own sort of primal, fractured existence.