William Kentridge in "Compassion" - Season 5 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring William Kentridge, from the "Compassion" episode in Season 5 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.
"Compassion" premiered in October 2009 on PBS.
Filmed working in his Johannesburg studio with an opera singer and pianist, William Kentridge is shown creating a video projection out of torn paper choreographed to a Puccini aria recorded through a cell phone. The segment follows Kentridge’s interest in opera as he stages a video installation and performance at the Sydney Biennial in Australia. The segment also showcases a series of anamorphic films projected onto circular tabletops, with a mirrored cylinder at the center that reconstitutes the distorted image.
William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/artist/William-Kent...
CREDITS
Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Associate Curator: Wesley Miller. Production Manager: Nick Ravich. Production Coordinator: Larissa Nikola-Lisa. Consulting Director: Catherine Tatge. Editor: Mark Sutton. Director of Photography: Philippe Charluet, Bob Elfstrom, & Joel Shapiro. Additional Photography: Miguel Sanchez-Martin & Ross Sebek. Sound: Ray Day, Henri Maïkoff, Cory Melious, Evan McIntosh, Patrick Mullins, & Roger Phenix. Assistant Camera: Gregory Paul Bigelow, Craig Feldman, Agnès Jammal, & Clair Popkin. Production Assistant: Ivan Andres Aguirre, Jimmy Chauke, & Amira Abultaif Kadamani.
Major underwriting for Art in the Twenty-First Century Season Five provided by: National Endowment for the Arts; Public Broadcasting Service; Agnes Gund; Bloomberg; The Nathan Cummings Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Broad Art Foundation; Korea Foundation; & The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
Full credits available at art21.org/watch/art-in-the-tw...
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[@HarlequinDrFaustus]

I first came across Kentridge's work at the Seattle Art Museum when I started working there in 2007; then a piece with the mirror was part of a Frye exhibition on puppets and animation; then saw his production of THE RETURN OF ULYSSES. Great to see his processes.

[@snowmann39]

Whats the name of the song she's singing?

[@daisybugzy]

He should trim his Eyebrows 😳😮🤭

[@trahapace150]

And You should try not to pass you weakness and insecurities off onto other people

[@marymc9601]

“The seriousness of play”. A very interesting film. I know he is South African but his voice is so reminds me of Anthony Hopkins.