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 — DirectorUrsonate — DirectorCarnets d'Egypte — DirectorSoft Dictionary — DirectorSelf-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (2024) — Director · Writer · CreatorOh to Believe in Another World (2022) — DirectorGo to the Light (2019) — Art DirectionSchubert: Winterreise (2017) — AnimationThe Metropolitan Opera: Lulu (2015) — Production DesignSecond-hand Reading (2013) — DirectorThe Metropolitan Opera: The Nose (2013) — Director10 Drawings for Projection, 1989-2011 (2011) — Director · WriterDrawing Lesson no. 47: Interview for Studio School (2010) — Director(Repeat) From the Beginning (2008) — DirectorTide Table (2003) — DirectorJourney to the Moon (2003) — Artist · DirectorShadow Procession (1999) — DirectorHistory of the Main Complaint (1996) — DirectorFelix in Exile (1994) — Director · AnimationSobriety, Obesity, & Growing Old (1991) — Director · AnimationMine (1991) — Director · AnimationMonument (1990) — DirectorDiscourse on a Chair (1975) — Director