Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot
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Année : 2024
Nombre de saisons : 1
Durée moyenne d'un épisode : 33 minutes
Genre(s) : Documentaire
Pioneering artist William Kentridge chronicles his creative process during COVID. Interconnected episodes explore culture, history, politics, and profound truths through art-making, inviting viewers into his studio.
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Épisode 1 - A Natural History of the Studio
18 octobre 2024
South African artist William Kentridge investigates life in the studio. He imagines his studio as an enlarged head, where multiple dialogues occur between the artist and himself. Kentridge begins interviewing his double. Soon, the whole studio is populated by Kentridge’s many selves.
Épisode 2 - Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot
18 octobre 2024
William Kentridge explores the making of a self-portrait as a way of coming to know oneself. He also welcomes the dancer Dada Masilo into his studio. As Kentridge attempts to draw his own figure with a brush attached to the tip of a long stick, his double watches the imperfect outcome from afar.
Épisode 3 - Vanishing Points
18 octobre 2024
William Kentridge investigates how memory connects to place. Using two large blank sheets of paper, the artist draws a fictional colonial landscape, like those he remembers hanging in his childhood dining room. Meanwhile, his doppelgänger draws what he remembers actually seeing in Johannesburg.
Épisode 4 - Finding One’s Fate
18 octobre 2024
Remembering a story his father told him when he was a child, of Perseus killing his grandfather by accident, William Kentridge reflects on the inescapability of one’s destiny. He explores the story of the Cumana Sibyl, who revealed people’s fate inscribed on leaves that fell from a tree.
Épisode 5 - As If
18 octobre 2024
William Kentridge begins to paint black curved brushstrokes that align, but only from one point of view, into the shape of a horse. He debates with his doppelgänger, who sits on a tall wooden horse. The artist and a team of collaborators start to work on a large abstract sculpture.
Épisode 6 - Harvest of Devotion
18 octobre 2024
William Kentridge recreates rehearsals for previous performance pieces. He reads a phonetic poem with performers Hamilton Dlamini, Mncedisi Shabangu, Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Mica Manganye. In contrast, they read John Chilembwe’s 1915 letter to the Nyasaland Times, arguing for equal standing in Malawi.
Épisode 7 - Metamorphosis
18 octobre 2024
As William Kentridge explores metamorphosis, sounds are visualized through painting, a shadow turns into a sculpture, time morphs into a film strip, and an abstract blotch becomes an image. Meanwhile, the performers Joanna Dudley and Ann Masina act out a myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Épisode 8 - Oh to Believe in Another World
18 octobre 2024
Small paper puppets and actors wearing masks endlessly dance in a fictional Soviet museum as William Kentridge documents the making of his 2022 installation Oh to Believe in Another World, made in response to Symphony No. 10 by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
Épisode 9 - In Defence of Optimism
18 octobre 2024
William Kentridge explores the optimism of making things—how, even in dire circumstances, there will be people who play, create, and sing. He enlists a local brass band to lead a jolly procession out of the studio and into Johannesburg. But will Kentridge’s two split parts come to an agreement?
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