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But Kentridge has worked in theatre for many years, initially as a designer and actor, and more recently as a director. Since 1992 his theatre involvement has been in collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company - creating multi-media pieces using puppets, live actors and animation. Whilst he has throughout his career moved between film, drawing and theatre, his primary activity remains drawing - and he sometimes conceives his theatre and film work as an expanded form of drawing. Since participating in Dokumenta X in Kassel in 1997, solo shows of Kentridge's work have been hosted by note William Kentridge's work has been divided into the categories of solo and group exhibitions, theatre and film. Listings under 'film' refer only to the process of making animated films - films are frequently included in exhibitions, and have been screened at numerous film festivals not mentioned here.
20 2002) Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (March 1 to May 5 2002) Los Angeles County Museum (July 21 to Oct. . His animated films, work in theater and drawings are breaking new ground in fusing these disciplines in the growing film and media based art field. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. 16) Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Oct 20 to Jan.
. Bei dem Festival sind zwei 3sat Produktionen des Westdeutschen Rundfunks ausgezeichnet worden. Der Film wurde bereits im April 2000 in San Francisco mit einem Golden Gate Award ausgezeichnet. ART" (eine Coproduktion Artcore Film, Paris, mit dem WDR) erhielt in derselben Kategorie eine lobende Erwaehnung. William Kentridge - Drawing the Passing Der Film ist ein Portraet des 1955 geborenen suedafrikanischen Kuenstlers, Theaterregisseurs und Filmemachers William Kentridge.
From the production of Ubu and the Truth Commission by William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company. . For each film sequence, the artist begins with a single charcoal drawing, which he modifies either by additions or erasures. Each alteration to the drawing is photographed to become one frame of his animated film. The film is therefore the result of thousands of changes to a few drawings.

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