William Kentridge
Directing · Director · Art Direction · Animation
Active 1975–present · Awards: Goslarer Kaiserring, Dan David Prize, Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Praemium Imperiale, honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s, constructed by filming a drawing, making…
Filmography
Zeno Writing — DirectorSibyl — DirectorThe Metropolitan Opera: Lulu (2015) — Production DesignFelix in Exile (1994) — Director · AnimationSelf-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (2024) — Director · Writer · CreatorSecond-hand Reading (2013) — DirectorSobriety, Obesity, & Growing Old (1991) — Director · AnimationTide Table (2003) — DirectorMine (1991) — Animation · DirectorUrsonate — DirectorJourney to the Moon (2003) — Artist · Director10 Drawings for Projection, 1989-2011 (2011) — Director · WriterSoft Dictionary — DirectorShadow Procession (1999) — DirectorCarnets d'Egypte — DirectorGo to the Light (2019) — Art DirectionMonument (1990) — DirectorThe Metropolitan Opera: The Nose (2013) — DirectorOh to Believe in Another World (2022) — DirectorHistory of the Main Complaint (1996) — DirectorSchubert: Winterreise (2017) — AnimationDiscourse on a Chair (1975) — DirectorDrawing Lesson no. 47: Interview for Studio School (2010) — Director(Repeat) From the Beginning (2008) — Director