As William Kentridge explores metamorphosis, sounds are visualized through painting, a shadow turns into a sculpture, time morphs into a film strip, and an abstract blotch becomes an image. Meanwhile, the performers Joanna Dudley and Ann Masina act out a myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
William Kentridge investigates how memory connects to place. Using two large blank sheets of paper, the artist draws a fictional colonial landscape, like those he remembers hanging in his childhood dining room. Meanwhile, his doppelgänger draws what he remembers actually seeing in Johannesburg.
William Kentridge explores the making of a self-portrait as a way of coming to know oneself. He also welcomes the dancer Dada Masilo into his studio. As Kentridge attempts to draw his own figure with a brush attached to the tip of a long stick, his double watches the imperfect outcome from afar.
At a rural Vermont dive bar called Babes, cribbage tournaments overlap afternoons of karaoke and nights of raucous queer dance parties. When the aging conservative townsfolk and the younger queer leftists begin sharing the same watering hole, a delicate allegiance flourishes.
William Kentridge recreates rehearsals for previous performance pieces. He reads a phonetic poem with performers Hamilton Dlamini, Mncedisi Shabangu, Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Mica Manganye. In contrast, they read John Chilembwe’s 1915 letter to the Nyasaland Times, arguing for equal standing in Malawi.
Remembering a story his father told him when he was a child, of Perseus killing his grandfather by accident, William Kentridge reflects on the inescapability of one’s destiny. He explores the story of the Cumana Sibyl, who revealed people’s fate inscribed on leaves that fell from a tree.
Kim’s Video, an iconic video store in New York City, mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a Sicilian village for “safekeeping.” But what starts as an homage to cinema quickly becomes a rescue mission to ensure the eternal preservation of the beloved video collection.
Geoff McFetridge’s art is everywhere—on your Apple watch, in countless galleries, and in title designs for films by Sofia Coppola. Unprecedented access into Geoff’s multifaceted world reveals his obsessive quest to balance family with a creative life, and a man guided by intention and authenticity.
Visual artist Alicia Nauta embarks on a new project, in which she is both the creator and the canvas. In her apartment-studio, the artist silently works away at her latest showstopping creation, from conceptualisation to public display.
In December 1969, legendary pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ended his European tour in Paris. Before the show, Monk appeared on French TV to perform and speak with French jazz pianist Henri Renaud. Newly discovered footage reveals the disconnect between Monk and his interviewer.
Artist Becca Willow engages in a series of phone calls to two very different sets of clients. There are the lonely men who crave female companionship, and there are the elderly who require kindness and sometimes a nostalgic old song.
Brothers Peter and Matthew are wild about each other. They’re also constantly at each others’ throats. Peter is obsessed with the TV show Survivor, while Matthew is terrified of dogs. Their summer in suburban Maryland is filled with loving family life, brotherly fun, and furious arguments.
Like the black sun of an eclipse, Antonia is a lyrical singer of exuberant and dark beauty. Recovering from a suicide attempt in a rehabilitation institution, all her family ties are irreparably broken. But her sister remains deeply affected by what happened. May they reunite once again?
Celebrated restaurant critic Jonathan Gold has a deep and complex relationship with the food and culture of his city, Los Angeles. He tours his city looking for new food experiences, uncovering hidden culinary treasures, and casting light upon the city’s thriving migrant culture.
1990. A young Kahnawake Mohawk woman named Kahentiiosta is arrested after the Oka Crisis’ 78-day armed standoff. She is detained four days longer than the other women. Her crime? The prosecutor representing the Quebec government did not accept her Indigenous name.
In the summer of 1990, an armed standoff over a planned golf course on Kanien’kéhaka land unfolded. Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin embedded herself on the front lines of this conflict for 78 days to film the discord between the protesters, police, and military.
In 1973, a group of Montreal citizens organized a festival to raise funds in support of the Cree Indigenous people, who were losing their land because of a local hydroelectric project. Spectacular performances alternate with community meetings where locals talk of their past to defend their future.
At a residential school in James Bay, northern Ontario, Cree children share stories of their families and community at Christmas time. Incidents both big and small are illustrated and described through the children’s words and in their crayon drawings.
Buried deep in the basement of the British Museum, hidden in plastic bags and wooden boxes, lies a wealth of ancient and rare African artifacts. Over one day, the valuable objects are unveiled for the first time, revealing the vast expanse of African art stolen by colonial forces.
Filmed during the Autumn and Winter of 2012/2013 at John Calder’s – Samuel Beckett’s London publisher, collaborator and close friend – home in Montreuil. It witnesses his very particular domestic life, as well as his journey to London to visit for the last time legendary actress, Billie Whitelaw.
