Thank you, Alison. William Kentridge is clearly a major - and the one piece
I have described, Tide Table, is only one aspect of his working means and
vision. I look forward to taking in your review.
I would not discount the Gore film - in the context of this country, I like
it as 'an event' - it's getting box office, etc., and definitely good to
support as a large as audience as possible- and it did keep me engaged (the
queasy thrill of watching the globe self destruct for profit, etc.) It's a
good, strong wake up call.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
Currently home of the Tenderly series,
A serial work in progress.
> 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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