Chained Girls
1965, Elokuvat
4

This exploitation classic purports to expose the secrets of the 1960s lesbian underworld.

Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)
1984, Elokuvat
3.9

In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was projected. The stringing together of the individual developed sections make up the new film, which reads the original frame like a page from a musical score: within the strips from top to bottom and sequentially from left to right.

Oh to Believe in Another World
2024, Elokuvat

Small paper puppets and actors wearing masks endlessly dance in a fictional Soviet museum as William Kentridge documents the making of his 2022 installation Oh to Believe in Another World, made in response to Symphony No. 10 by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

In Defence of Optimism
2024, Elokuvat

William Kentridge explores the optimism of making things—how, even in dire circumstances, there will be people who play, create, and sing. He enlists a local brass band to lead a jolly procession out of the studio and into Johannesburg. But will Kentridge’s two split parts come to an agreement?

Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot
2024, Elokuvat

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.

Vanishing Points
2024, Elokuvat

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.

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot: Episode 1 - A Natural History of the Studio
2024, Elokuvat

South African artist William Kentridge investigates life in the studio. He imagines his studio as an enlarged head, where multiple dialogues occur between the artist and himself. Kentridge begins interviewing his double. Soon, the whole studio is populated by Kentridge’s many selves.

Lateral
2024, Elokuvat

Artist Charlie Shackleton realizes he can trick the human brain into detecting 3D images without using two cameras. He scours cinema history for hidden depths, testing out tracking shots from various films, including works by Chantal Akerman and Stanley Kubrick.

As If
2024, Elokuvat

William Kentridge begins to paint black curved brushstrokes that align, but only from one point of view, into the shape of a horse. He debates with his doppelgänger, who sits on a tall wooden horse. The artist and a team of collaborators start to work on a large abstract sculpture.

Finding One's Fate
2024, Elokuvat

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.

Harvest of Devotion
2024, Elokuvat

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.

2008
2019, Elokuvat

Images of cherry blossoms, luminous fields bursting with color, and miscellaneous domestic ephemera are photographed from the screen of an obsolete televisual device.

Black Sun
2016, Elokuvat

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?

Something Horizontal
2015, Elokuvat

Stroboscopic glimpses of Victorian domestic surfaces and geometric shadows transform the physical world into an impressionistic fantasia. Elsewhere, a specter emerges from the depths of German expressionist cinema.

You Hide Me
1970, Elokuvat

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.

Piattaforma Luna
2011, Elokuvat

A group of six scuba divers specializing in deep underwater operations live for three weeks at the bottom of the ocean. Staying alternately in the recompression chamber on board the platform Luna or conducting work on the bottom of the sea, the divers meticulously adhere to strict protocols.

San Siro
2014, Elokuvat

The stadium takes center stage as countless people work its infrastructure and the crowd rises into its columns—all in anticipation of our modern gladiators.