
Thick Time
Everything can be saved. Everything is provisional. A prior action is rescued by that which follows. A drawing abandoned is revived by the next drawing.
The films of Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitlebaum were all made with the principle of NO SCRIPT, NO STORYBOARD. The making of each film was the discovery of what each film was. A first image, phrase, or idea would justify itself in the unfolding of images, connections, and ideas spawned by the work as it progressed. The imperfect erasures of the successive stages of each drawing become a record of the progress of an idea and a record of the passage of time. The smudges of erasure thicken time in the film, but they also serve as a record of the days and months spent making the film—a record of thinking in slow motion.
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+ Credits
Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris
1989
16mm film transferred to video
8 minutes 2 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Sound
Warwick Sony with music by Duke Ellington; choral music
Monument
1990
16mm film transferred to video
3 minutes 11 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Sound
Catherine Meyburgh
Music
Edward Jordan
Mine
1991
16mm film transferred to video
5 minutes 50 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Music
Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B Minor, Opus 104
Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old
1991
16mm film transferred to video
8 minutes 22 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Music
Dvorak’s String Quartet in F, Opus 96; choral music of South Africa; M’appari aria from Friedrich von Flotow’s Martha, sung by Enrico Caruso
Felix in Exile
1994
Animated film
35mm film transferred to video
8 minutes 43 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Sound
Wilbert Schübel
Music
Philip Miller, String Trio for Felix in Exile (musicians: Peta-Ann Holdcroft, Marjan Vonk-Stirling, Jan Pustejovsky); Go Tlapsha Didiba by Motsumi Makhene (sung by Sibongile Khumalo)
History of the Main Complaint
1996
35mm film transferred to video
5 minutes 50 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Sound
Wilbert Schübel
Music
A madrigal by Monteverdi
WEIGHING… and WANTING
1998
35mm film transferred to video
6 minutes 20 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson and Catherine Meyburgh
Sound
Wilbert Schübel
Music
Philip Miller (musicians: Peta-Ann Holdcroft, Marjan Vonk-Stirling, Ivo Ivanov)
Stereoscope
1999
35mm film transferred to video
8 minutes 22 seconds
Editing
Catherine Meyburgh
Music
Philip Miller (musicians: Peta-Ann Holdcroft, Marjan Vonk-Stirling, Ishmael Kambule, Minas Berberyan)
Sound
Wilbert Schübel
Tide Table
2003
35mm film transferred to video
8 minutes 50 seconds
Editing
Catherine Meyburgh
Music
Likambo Ya Ngana by Franco et le TP O.K. Jazz; singers from the Market Theatre Laboratory
Sound
Wilbert Schübel
Other Faces
2011
35mm film transferred to video
9 minutes 45 seconds
Editing
Catherine Meyburgh
Music and sound design
Philip Miller
Voice
Ann Masina and Bham Ntabeni
Sound mix
Wilbert Schübel and Gavan Eckhart
City Deep
2020
HD video (1920×1080), stereo audio
9 minutes 15 seconds
Editing
Janus Fouché
Music
Imimoya (spirits): composed by Nhlanhla Mahlangu, vocals Xolisile Bongwana, Thulani Zwane, Siphiwe Nkabinde, Zama Maphumulo, Muzi Shili, Mandla Sibanyoni, Sibusiso Shozi
Works for Prepared Piano: composed by John Cage, performed by Markus Hinterhäuser
Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris
1989

Excerpt from complete film
Drawings
Monument
1990


Excerpt from complete film
Drawings
- Drawing for the film Monument1990Charcoal and pastel on paper
477 - Drawing for the film Monument1990Charcoal on paper
479 - Drawing for the film Monument1990Charcoal on paper or charcoal and pastel on paper
481 - Drawing for the film Monument1990Charcoal and pastel on paper
482s - Drawing for the film Monument1990Charcoal on paper. Framed150 x 120 cm
483s - Drawing for the film Monument1990Charcoal on paper120 x 160 cmEdition of 1
484s - Drawing for the film Monument1990Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
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Mine
1990


A slow trawling of motives, of connections between the characters in the film and in their world—the world of South Africa since the late 1980s. There is if not a deliberate blindness then certainly a bluntness in the progression of the films: bluntness both in the crude charcoal and fat erasures that are inevitable when using these materials, and in the unrefined succession of images. In the expectation or resignation that in the end, crude or sharp, well or ill, the constellation of images, story, and sound will reveal who one is (who I am, although the first person singular feels an impertinence, or at any rate inadequate. One of the things the films showed was that Soho and Felix were both close to me—not so much a self divided, but the artist as mediator between several different factions of the self. In Stereoscope Soho divides in two; in History of the Main Complaint he becomes eight or nine).
Excerpt from complete film
Drawings
- Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
1125s - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper75 x 120 cm
1127s - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 75 cm
1129s - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper75 x 120 cm
1131 - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper75 x 120 cm
1132 - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper75 x 120 cm
1133 - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
552s - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper75 x 120 cm
553s - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper60 x 75 cm
554s - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper60 x 100 cm
555 - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper82.6 x 123 cm
556s - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
557s - Drawing for the film Mine1991Charcoal and pastel on paper74.5 x 90 cm
559
Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old
1990


Excerpt from complete film
Drawings
- Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
1116 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
1117 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obestiy and Growing Old1989Charcoal on paper
1119 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
1120 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
1121 - Drawing for Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
1122f - Drawing for Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
1123 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
1126f - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper75 x 120 cm
538 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper70 x 100 cm
539 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old (Cityscape)1991Charcoal and pastel on paper70 x 100 cm
540large - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper90 x 110 cm
541 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
542 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper75 x 120 cm
543 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old (Her Absence Filled the World)1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
544 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
545 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old (Soho & Mrs Eckstein & Felix Teitlebaum)1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
546 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper70 x 100 cm
547 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper
550 - Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old1991Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
551
Felix in Exile
1994


The first Soho film was an indulgence, time out from being an artist, a private pleasure that did not have to make sense to anyone outside the studio. Once the films started to be seen (about three years after the series began), it became harder to reclaim each time the space of not knowing what I was doing. One of the tasks of the years has been to find strategies to keep clarity at a distance. I still rely on a first image, phrase, or idea, but with oceans unknown between them—a sufficient impetus to put the camera in front of the paper and shoot the first frame.
Excerpt from complete film
Drawings
- Drawing for Felix in Exile (Nandi with Theodolite)1995Charcoal, pastel and Indian ink on paper75 x 105.5 cm
_MG_2882 - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
1134 - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
1145s - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile (Felix with Seismograph)1994Charcoal and pastel on paper80 x 121 cm
1146 - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper75 x 106 cm
1149 - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper106 x 150 cm
1154 - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper50 x 60 cm
1157 - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper
152a - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper45 x 54 cm
152s - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper80 x 120 cm
1737 - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal on paper or charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 160 cm
602s - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper80 x 120 cm
603 - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
605 - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 160 cm
607s - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
614s - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 160 cm
615 - Drawing for Felix in Exile (Nandi)1994Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
617 - Drawing for Felix in Exile (Nandi's Cry)1994Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
617s - Drawings for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper45 x 60 cm
619 - Drawings for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper50 x 64 cm
620 - Drawing for the film Felix in Exile1994Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
Kentridge_1998-138_LL - Drawing for Felix in Exile (Old News)1994Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 150 cm
Kentridge_1998-139_LL - Felix in Exile1994Etching, soft ground, drypoint and aquatint from 1 copper plate, on Fabriano Rosaspina Bianco, 220 gsm paper70 x 100 cmEdition of 35
WK_15_138_Felix_in_exile_7203 FM Web
History of the Main Complaint
1996


Excerpt from complete film
Drawings
- Drawing for the film History of the Main Complaint1996Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 160 cm
1370 - Drawing for the film History of the Main Complaint1996Charcoal and pastel on paper80 x 122 cm
1372 - Drawing for the film History of the Main Complaint1996Charcoal and pastel on paper
1375 - Drawing for History of the Main Complaint1996Charcoal and pastel on paper50 x 66 cm
1376 - Drawing for the film History of the Main Complaint1996Charcoal and pastel on paper70 x 102.5 cm
1377 - History of the Main Complaint (Consultation)1996Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 160 cm
1378 - Drawing for the film History of the Main Complaint1996Charcoal and pastel on paper
1379 - Drawing for the film History of the Main Complaint (Second Opinion)1996Charcoal and pastel on paper80 x 121 cm
1380 - Drawing for the film History of the Main Complaint1996Charcoal and pastel on paper56 x 76 cm
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Weighing… and Wanting
1998


The scale of drawings (the largest are an arm’s span, the smallest about a quarter of that), the materials (charcoal, one or two pastels, an eraser, and a cloth of chamois leather), and the format (film, not 4:3 video) stay the same. The gaps between making the films have become longer. City Deep, the most recent in the series (made in 2020), comes nine years after Other Faces, which preceded it. But the start of a new film feels more and more a return to a familiar space—to a refuge for slow time.
Excerpt from complete film
Drawings
- Drawing for the film Weighing... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 160 cm
1329 - Drawing for the film Weighing... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper55.9 x 76.2 cm
1336 - Drawing for the film Weighing... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper
1337 - Drawing for the film Weighing... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper122.6 x 160 cm
1338 - Drawing for the film Weighing... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper
1339 - Drawing for the film Weighing.... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper
1341 - Drawing for the film Weighing.... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper
1342 - Drawing for the film Weighing.... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper50 x 66 cm
1343 - Drawing for the film Weighing.... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper50 x 66 cm
1344 - Drawing for the film Weighing.... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper50 x 66 cm
1345 - Drawing for the film Weighing.... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper121.9 x 160 cm
1346 - Drawing for the film Weighing.... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper50.2 x 66 cm
1348 - Drawing for the film Weighing.... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper121.9 x 160 cm
1351 - Drawing for the film Weighing… and Wanting1997Charcoal and pastel on paper122.6 x 160 cm
kent_momak_B_006 - Drawing for the film Weighing... and Wanting / Soho with Head on Rock1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper123.2 x 160 cm
KENTRIDGE 5.08 N17.1998 - Drawing for the film Weighing.... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper55.9 x 76.2 cm
KENTRIDGE 5.08 N2.1998 - Drawing for the film Weighing.... and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper121.9 x 160 cm
KENTRIDGE 5.08 N22.1998 - Drawing for the film Weighing… and Wanting1997-98Charcoal and pastel on paper55.9 x 76.2 cm
weighing + wanting 3
Stereoscope
1999


Excerpt from complete film
Drawings
- Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper122 x 160 cm
1385s - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
1386 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
1387 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
1388 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
1389 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
1390 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
1392 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paperDimensions variable
1401 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
1405 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper55 x 66 cm
1407 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper80 x 120 cm
1409 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper92 x 120 cm
1417 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper53 x 93 cm
1419 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
1422 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper53 x 75 cm
1423 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper41 x 80 cm
1426 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
1427 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal on paper or charcoal and pastel on paper, dimension variable.
1430 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
1431 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper80 x 120 cm
1432 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper51 x 66 cm
1438 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal on paper
kent_momak_B_012 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper79 x 121.9 cm
KENTRIDGE 5.08 N25.1998 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper80 x 120 cm
KENTRIDGE 5.08 N28.1998 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal on paper
stereoscope - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
stereoscope 1.A5 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper80 x 120 cm
stereoscope 3.a4 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper120 x 160 cm
stereoscope 4 - Drawing for the film Stereoscope1998-99Charcoal and pastel on paper
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Tide Table
2003


The hope (and this is too much to load on the films) is that the succession of images and the connections between them will show not only a way forward for the narrative of the film, not only a revelation of who one is, but also a hint as to how to go forward in the world outside the studio, as if the gradual accretion of marks can somehow lumberingly draw agency into existence.
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Drawings
- Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper92.5 x 133 cm
2123n - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2124 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2132n - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper81.3 x 121.9 cm
2139n - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2140n - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper80 x 120 cm
2141 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2143n - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper80 x 120 cm
2144 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2146 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2149 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2150 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2152 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2153 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2158 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2159 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2160 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2161 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2162 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2163 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2167 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2174 - Drawing for the film Tide Table2003Charcoal on paper
2175 - Drawing for the film Tide table2003Charcoal on paper63.5 x 167.6 cm
490n
Other Faces
2011


Excerpt from complete film
Drawings
- Drawing for City Deep (Soho at Vitrine)2018Charcoal and red pencil on paper104.5 x 152 cm
19_212_WK_9649 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper56.5 x 78.5 cm
60867 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper61.5 x 40 cmEdition of 1
Copies_24_10_2011-06 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and charcoal powder on paperEach page: 40 x 60.5 cm
kent_draw_04_11_003 - Drawing from the film Other Faces2010Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper92 x 114 cm
kent_draw_04_11_021 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper
kent_draw_04_11_024 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper89.5 x 121 cm
kent_draw_04_11_031 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper61 x 79.5 cm
kent_draw_04_11_032 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper61.5 x 121 cm
kent_soho_03_11_002 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper44.5 x 60 cm
kent_soho_03_11_003 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper49 x 59.5 cm
kent_soho_03_11_004 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper165.5 x 90 cm
kent_soho_03_11_015 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and blue pastel on paper121.5 x 160 cm
kent_soho_03_11_019 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and pastel on paper57 x 79 cm
kent_soho_03_11_027 - Drawing for the film Other Faces (Man Holding Flash)2011Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper57 x 78 cm
kent_soho_03_11_029 - Drawing for the film Other Faces (Joburg Mall)2010Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper80 x 121 cm
kent_soho_03_11_031 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper80 x 121.5 cm
kent_soho_03_11_033 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal on paper56 x 76 cm
kent_soho_03_11_034 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper80.5 x 121 cm
kent_soho_03_11_035 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2011Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper56.5 x 76 cm
kent_soho_03_11_037 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper57 x 76 cm
kent_soho_03_11_039 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil78.5 x 121 cm
kent_soho_03_11_050 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper57 x 78 cm
kent_soho_03_11_051 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper57 x 78.5 cm
kent_soho_03_11_053 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper57 x 78.5 cm
kent_soho_03_11_054 - Drawing for the film Other Faces (Monument)2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper57 x 79 cm
kent_soho_03_11_056 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and pencil on paper57 x 79 cm
kent_soho_03_11_057 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and pencil on paper57 x 78 cm
kent_soho_03_11_058 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper
kent_soho_03_11_060 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper79 x 118 cm
kent_soho_03_11_061 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper80 x 120 cm
kent_soho_03_11_067 - Drawing for the film Other Faces2010-11Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper57 x 79 cm
kent_soho_03_11_069 - Drawing for the Film Other Faces2012Charcoal, pencil and coloured pencil on ledger paper78.7 x 122 cm
kent_soho_03_11_072
City Deep
2020


Excerpt from complete film
Drawings
- Drawing for City Deep (Soho at Vitrine)2018Charcoal and red pencil on paper104.5 x 152 cm
19_212_WK_9649 - Drawing for City Deep (Soho with Head Bowed)2018Charcoal and red pencil on paper80 x 100 cm
19_212_WK_9666 - Drawing for City Deep (Soho Studying Vitrine)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper63.5 x 121 cm
19_212_WK_9672 - Drawing for City Deep (Miner with Hammer and Pick)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper80 x 98 cm
19_212_WK_9678 - Drawing for City Deep (Collapsing of the Gallery)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper75 x 128 cm
19_212_WK_9691 - Drawing for City Deep (Darkness Gossips About No One)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper39.5 x 181.5 cm
19_212_WK_9693 - Drawing for City Deep (The Mouth Is Dreaming)2018Charcoal and red pencil on paper80 x 98 cm
19_212_WK_9701 - Drawing for City Deep (Woman with Pan)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper78.5 x 107 cm
19_212_WK_9722 - Drawing for City Deep (Soho Gazing at Portrait)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper80 x 120 cm
19_212_WK_9727 - Drawing for City Deep (Miner in Pit)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper52 x 79.5 cm
19_212_WK_9730 - Drawing for City Deep (Soho in Gallery)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper80 x 120.5 cm
19_212_WK_9741 - Drawing for City Deep (Zama Zama Pan)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper37 x 49.5 cm
19_212_WK_9749 - Drawing for City Deep (Landscape with Projection Screen)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper80 x 120.5 cm
19_212_WK_9754 - Drawing for City Deep (Soho Looking into Pit)2019Charcoal and red pencil paper77 x 128 cm
WK_19_206_Draw_0041 - Drawing for City Deep (Zama Zama Pits)2019Charcoal and red pencil on paper103.5 x 152 cm
WK_19_206_Draw_0074 - Drawing for City Deep (Johannesburg Art Gallery)2018Charcoal and red pencil on paper128 x 190 cm
WK_19_225_Drawing_8957 - Drawing for City Deep (Title)2020Charcoal and red pencil on paper152 x 171 cm
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An Interview with William Kentridge
Matthew and William Kentridge, October 2012. Conversation for the book "The Soho Chronicles: 10 Films by William Kentridge".
Credits: Drawings for Projection
Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris
1989
16mm film transferred to video
8 minutes 2 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Sound
Warwick Sony with music by Duke Ellington; choral music
Monument
1990
16mm film transferred to video
3 minutes 11 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Sound
Catherine Meyburgh
Music
Edward Jordan
Mine
1991
16mm film transferred to video
5 minutes 50 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Music
Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B Minor, Opus 104
Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old
1991
16mm film transferred to video
8 minutes 22 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Music
Dvorak’s String Quartet in F, Opus 96; choral music of South Africa; M’appari aria from Friedrich von Flotow’s Martha, sung by Enrico Caruso
Felix in Exile
1994
Animated film
35mm film transferred to video
8 minutes 43 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Sound
Wilbert Schübel
Music
Philip Miller, String Trio for Felix in Exile (musicians: Peta-Ann Holdcroft, Marjan Vonk-Stirling, Jan Pustejovsky); Go Tlapsha Didiba by Motsumi Makhene (sung by Sibongile Khumalo)
History of the Main Complaint
1996
35mm film transferred to video
5 minutes 50 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson
Sound
Wilbert Schübel
Music
A madrigal by Monteverdi
WEIGHING… and WANTING
1998
35mm film transferred to video
6 minutes 20 seconds
Editing
Angus Gibson and Catherine Meyburgh
Sound
Wilbert Schübel
Music
Philip Miller (musicians: Peta-Ann Holdcroft, Marjan Vonk-Stirling, Ivo Ivanov)
Stereoscope
1999
35mm film transferred to video
8 minutes 22 seconds
Editing
Catherine Meyburgh
Music
Philip Miller (musicians: Peta-Ann Holdcroft, Marjan Vonk-Stirling, Ishmael Kambule, Minas Berberyan)
Sound
Wilbert Schübel
Tide Table
2003
35mm film transferred to video
8 minutes 50 seconds
Editing
Catherine Meyburgh
Music
Likambo Ya Ngana by Franco et le TP O.K. Jazz; singers from the Market Theatre Laboratory
Sound
Wilbert Schübel
Other Faces
2011
35mm film transferred to video
9 minutes 45 seconds
Editing
Catherine Meyburgh
Music and sound design
Philip Miller
Voice
Ann Masina and Bham Ntabeni
Sound mix
Wilbert Schübel and Gavan Eckhart
City Deep
2020
HD video (1920×1080), stereo audio
9 minutes 15 seconds
Editing
Janus Fouché
Music
Imimoya (spirits): composed by Nhlanhla Mahlangu, vocals Xolisile Bongwana, Thulani Zwane, Siphiwe Nkabinde, Zama Maphumulo, Muzi Shili, Mandla Sibanyoni, Sibusiso Shozi
Works for Prepared Piano: composed by John Cage, performed by Markus Hinterhäuser