William Kentridge Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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