William Kentridge

William Kentridge at IFFR

• Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris

  Soho Eckstein (estate agent extraordinaire) and Felix Teitlebaum fight for the hearts and mines of Johannesburg.

  • main programme short

• Overvloed

  A play on colonial visual symbolism projected on the ceiling of Boijmans. This work was previously projected on the baroque-painted ceiling of the

  • exploding cinema
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  Automatic Writing

  Drawing takes Kentridge into the unconscious, through his automatic responses.

  • short films
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  William Kentridge: Journey to the Moon, Day for Night and …

  Compilation with installations by William Kentridge, based on Voyage dans la Lune by Georges Méliès.

  • Cinema Regained
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  Medicine Chest

  The first screen-specific installation by Kentridge. In this case, the found screen is a medicine chest, which also sets the theme of the piece. A

  • What (is) Cinema? TENT.

• Mine

  Soho Eckstein digs up a whole social and ecological history from the ground as a mine owner.

  • main programme short

• Felix in Exile

  The landscape is a metaphor for the process of remembering or forgetting in South Africa before the general elections.

  • main programme short

• Monument

  Soho Eckstein is a public benefactor who builds a monument to himself and the city.

  • main programme short

• Weighing.. and Wanting

  How do you present a picture of the whole world in your head?

  • main programme short

• History of the Main Complaint

  An attempt by the maker to combine the technique of charcoal animation with the music of Monteverdi.

  • main programme short