Stephen, I haven't seen the Gore film (and I'm not sure that I want to, it
probably won't tell me anything I don't know). But I am a very big fan of
William Kentridge, and have seen several of his works, including that one at
MOMA. I like immensely what you say about his work, and I think you are very
accurate about its power. This seems very right to me: " One senses that the
very charcoal strokes he makes for the drawings are a way of digging and
scraping deeper and deeper into his subject matter until he arrives at a
certain sense of truth. I suspect it's the sensuality of that process that
makes me trust the work - the video as an artifact becomes an imaginative
kind of a social and human fact."
You might be interested in a review I did of an opera he directed (The
Return of Ulysses) which featured some more of his beautiful animation - for
me, an extraordinarily moving production (you have to scroll down through
the Robert le Page, unless that interests you as well) - it's at
http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/2004/10/miaf-beggars-opera-and-return-of.html
All best
A
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