• Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris
  • Monument
  • Felix in Exile
  • History of the Main Complaint
  • Stereoscope
  • Tide Table


Drawings for Projection



Drawings for Projection is a central project of William Kentridge’s impressive career. The series, which the artist has been working on for more than thirty years, is one he describes as a “self-portrait in the third person.” The narrative thread follows two central characters, Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitelbaum, and deals with themes of memory, loss, cultural displacement, and political oppression. Kentridge works without a script and employs a hand-crafted animation technique. His distinctive use of charcoal, pastel, and ink features repeated augmentation and redrawing of primary images. “The smudges of erasure thicken time in the film, but they also serve as a record of the days and months spent making the film—a record of thinking in slow motion,” the artist explained.

Films in this Screening

Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris

William Kentridge, South Africa, 1989

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Monument

William Kentridge, South Africa, 1990

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  • Digital
  • 3 mins
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  • William Kentridge

Mine

William Kentridge, South Africa, 1991

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  • Digital
  • 6 mins
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Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old

William Kentridge, South Africa, 1991

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  • 8 mins
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Felix in Exile

William Kentridge, South Africa, 1994

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  • Digital
  • 9 mins
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History of the Main Complaint

William Kentridge, South Africa, 1996

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  • Digital
  • 6 mins
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  • William Kentridge

Weighing . . . and Wanting

William Kentridge, South Africa, 1998

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  • Digital
  • 6 mins
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Stereoscope

William Kentridge, South Africa, 1999

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  • Digital
  • 9 mins
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Tide Table

William Kentridge, South Africa, 2003

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  • 9 mins
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Other Faces

William Kentridge, South Africa, 2011

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  • Digital
  • 10 mins
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  • William Kentridge

City Deep

William Kentridge, South Africa, 2020

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  • 10 mins
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