In KENTRIDGE’s cross-disciplinary, cross-media world of artistic creation, images are not merely background supporting characters for theatre or installations, but are seen as an important intermediary to understanding the world. Taking Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ as an example, he feels that the prisoners in the cave believed the shadows on the wall represented reality not because they were controlled by hallucinations, but because silhouettes projected onto walls by firelight were the beginning of mankind’s understanding of the meaning of the world.
William Kentridge
Director
Maniac60%
Grindhouse69%
The Man from Earth76%
The English Patient71%
Inception83%
Cave of Forgotten Dreams70%
The House That Jack Built71%
A Bucket of Blood65%
The Benchwarmers58%
Escape to Victory68%
SLC Punk71%
Broke70%
Dalíland59%
Beneath Hill 6068%
Unknown62%
Ashes and Snow72%
Me and You and Everyone We Know69%
Powder70%
The Dark Crystal71%
Queen of Chess75%
