Product Details

• Actors: William Kentridge
• Directors: Reinhard Wulf
• Format: NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: David Krut Publishing
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1999
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 0620264535
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,638 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary View of a Great Artist, October 12, 2002

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alan_in_la "alan_in_la" (Los Angeles, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: William Kentridge: Drawing the Passing [VHS] (VHS Tape)

William Kentridge is a white South African born in 1955. He is best known for animations, based on large charcoal paintings, which have as their subject the complexity of living a meaningful life in the warped society of South Africa.

This video shows how Kentridge makes the films, working on the charcoal paintings, then clicking the film camera one frame at a time. He then walks back to the painting and works on it, before exposing another twenty-fifth of a second. It shows how he uses himself as the model for one of the recurring characters, Felix Teitelbaum.

Kentridge is articulate and interesting and has established himself as a great artist in the tradition of Hogarth, Daumier and the German expressionists. His exhibition, which closed here in Los Angeles last week, was breathtaking.