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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: The Animated Films of William Kentridge\nEvent Url:
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 lliam_Kentridge\nEvent Date Begin: 2012-04-22\nEvent Date End: 2012-04-22
 \n\nSouth African artist extraordinaire William Kentridge (b. 1955) is cel
 ebrated for his unusual drawing-based art practice which uses age-old tech
 niques to create cutting edge and often fiercely political work in a wide 
 range of media from prints to theater\, opera and most of all film. Since 
 the late 1970s Kentridge has given much of his time to the direction of &l
 dquo\;moving pictures\,&rdquo\; crafting intensely artisanal and profoundl
 y imaginative films based entirely upon his handmade charcoal drawings and
  using only a drafting table and camera for their arduous and extended pro
 ductions. Refusing any kind of computerized special effects\, Kentridge in
 stead works and reworks his drawings as he films them\, making the act of 
 erasure as important as his drawings\, keeping the trace as alive as the f
 igure. A direct extension of the palimpsest mode of Kentridge's animated f
 ilms is the alternately melancholic and whimsical world which they describ
 e\, ranging from the comical study of bureaucratic chaos\, Memo to his rem
 arkable polyptych\, 9 Drawings for Projection. Loosely centered around the
  troubling yet strangely sympathetic figure of the fat cat capitalist and 
 cuckold\, Soho Eckstein\, 9 Drawings for Projection offers a lyrical medit
 ation on contemporary South Africa that openly addresses the thorny issues
  of apartheid\, class inequity and rampant free market capitalism. A passi
 onate cinephile whose own work draws on a range of film referents from Ser
 gei Eisenstein to George M&eacute\;li&egrave\;s\, Kentridge's animated wor
 ks are mesmerizing both as a kind of pure cinema and as a dramatic mode of
  live drawing.\n\nStart time: 5pm
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SUMMARY:The Animated Films of William Kentridge
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