Sunday November 11, 14h15, EYE Cinema 2 // Get tickets

Multidisciplinary South-African artist William Kentridge has used the medium of animation to denounce Apartheid in the late 80s and early 90s. He continues to deliver insightful commentary on South African society with his animation cycle following the lives of two fictional characters Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitlebaum. Kentridge’s films will be introduced by Sandra Coumans, author of the renowned book Geschichte und Identität on Kentridge’s multimedia-installation Black Box/Chambre Noire.

85 min, English

The Animated Works of William Kentridge is organized in cooperation with the Jewish Historical Museum, who’s William Kentridge exhibition continues until November 25th 2012. The work exhibited, Black Box/Chambre Noire, is a mechanical theatre in which six mechanical figures perform against a projected background of animated charcoal paintings, dealing with the German colonialism in Africa back in 1904.