William Kentridge Movies

A journey into the mines provides a visual representation of a journey into the conscience of Kentridge's invented character, Soho Eckstein, the...

A study of a man's physical and mental limitations. In the 24 quite harsh and grueling fragments of the unfinished drama, a body and a mind are...

A Kafka comedy in which simple office objects first escape from and finally overwhelm a middle-aged functionary.

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

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

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

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

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

A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

Felix in Exile introduces a new character to the 'Drawings for Projection' series: Nandi, an African woman, who appears at the beginning of the film...

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

In City Deep, the “zama zama” miners and the landscape merge into artworks hanging in the Johannesburg Art Gallery, itself built during...

William Kentridge’s ironic tribute to his hometown, animated on the basis of 25 drawings, is the first film of his “Drawing for...

William Kentridge’s Monument is a captivating short animated film about the unveiling of a statue dedicated to the South African work force. ...

From the Queen of the Night's vocal pyrotechnics to Papageno's chirpy birdsongs, The Magic Flute is one of Mozart's most charming and engaging...

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

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

Alan Yentob joins South African artist William Kentridge as he prepares an epic frieze along the banks of the river Tiber in Rome. Alan visits him in...

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