Thursday, 6. August 2009

William Kentridge II

After writing about William Kentridge yesterday, I searched for some video material on youtube to share with you. It was (and it is) very difficult to get some of his films for private use because they were treated as art, and I guess that's why the galleries or the artist himself has a great interest in keeping the copies on a small amount.
But nowadays and luckily, there were a lot of his works available on youtube.

I just had a glance at amazon.de and still they don't offer any DVD of his artworks but one: Drawing the passing is a great documentation of his work, where some parts of his films were shown and with lots of talks with the artist himself. The DVD gives us a great idea of how he's working and how his films are developed by looking over his shoulder while he's drawing and filming.

The film below is titled Automatic Writing and I suppose the title is a reference to the artist of the surrealism. Well, it's quite obviuos, I think:

Comments

darkstrider wrote on Friday, 7. August 2009 at 10:56:

Wow!!! Incredible!! !

Thank you for sharing this. It's so inspiring, it makes me want to try it myself, as you did in the post below. It reminds me in some ways of Pjotr Dumala, are you familiar with his work?

Jessica wrote on Friday, 7. August 2009 at 11:16:

Hi Mike,

no, I don't know the work of Pjotr Dumala, but I'll have a look at it because I had some great experiences with your recommendations! ;)

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