William Kentridge Movies

Franz Schubert´s Winterreise engages with its audience in a new and unexpected form. Matthias Goerne, 'the voice of perfection' (Le Figaro),...

William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas – two of the most celebrated names in international contemporary art – come face to face in a series...

In KENTRIDGE’s cross-disciplinary, cross-media world of artistic creation, images are not merely background supporting characters for theatre...

Kentridge has combined images from documentary films and photographs together with moving puppets as well as his animated drawings.

The artist portrays the glories and tragedies of the Eternal City along the banks of the Tiber river in Rome.

He developed a method of filmmaking that he dubbed “poor-man’s animation,” in which he photographed charcoal drawings and collages...

William Kentridge’s Notes Towards a Model Opera (2014–15) is an 11-minute video work that pulses with visual ingenuity and historical...

In KENTRIDGE’s cross-disciplinary, cross-media world of artistic creation, images are not merely background supporting characters for theatre...

Kentridge's first film, animation made with Magic Marker.

"Tango for Page Turning" belongs to a constellation of work created for "Refuse the Hour", a multimedia chamber opera conceived and written by...

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

(REPEAT) From the Beginning is about fragmentation and reconnection, the fragility of coherence. The three projections, Breathe, Dissolve, Return...

In KENTRIDGE’s cross-disciplinary, cross-media world of artistic creation, images are not merely background supporting characters for theatre...

Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).

Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old picks up the narrative and themes begun in Kentridge's first film, Johannesburg the Second Greatest City after...

An outdoor performance and film screening that brings together all of the short animated films from internationally renowned South African artist...

With his video History of the Main Complaint (1996) serving as a backdrop, William Kentridge discusses how artists draw upon tragedy as subject...

William Kentridge (1955) was inspired in this case by the novel by Italo Svevo The Conscience of Zeno (1923). Kentridge concentrates on the main...

Drawing, literally, from the story of Daniel and Belshazzar, William Kentridge's film Weighing… and Wanting re-examines the legacy of...