William Kentridge Movies

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

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...

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

Other Faces returns to the figure of Soho Eckstein, the industrialist and developer who is the key protagonist of the Drawings for Projection series....

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

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

new view on WOI.

short animation film.

An immersive five-channel projection made in response to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10.

Short documentation about the South African artist William Kentridge and his very unique animated films.

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

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

History of the Main Complaint is the sixth film [of a] series and is based on twenty-one drawings. It was made shortly after the establishment in...

The new work made by William Kentridge specially for EYE is a 45-metre-long frieze that depicts an endless parade of figures who collectively form a...

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...

Kentridge interviews himself for a job.

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

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