9 Films ,2004
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Note : William Kentridge’s 9 Drawings for Projection, originally released after the first nine Soho Eckstein films had been gathered together (the films were made between 1989 and 2003), was a series of screenings of the entire first nine short films featuring his now-iconic characters. Some of these were performative, with at least one screening featuring a string quartet accompanying the screening with a live soundtrack, and others were screened as museum installations. Though it has since been added to, the original 9 Drawings films follow the fictional story of Kentridge’s antihero Soho Eckstein, and wealthy South African mine owner, land developer, and cuckold. The nine films chronicle the rise and fall of Soho’s Johannesburg empire, his wife’s passionate affair with his nemesis and alter ego Felix Teitlebaum, against the backdrop of the changing political circusmtances and upheaval of a South African in uprising against the apartheid regime from which Soho benefits. This print series takes the fomr of one of Kentridge’s iconic images, a sinister box camera on a tripod looming large over a typical highveld landscape, the suggestion of a drive-in screen on one side. The drawing from which the print series was made embodies the stop-motion ethos of the drawings which make up the films, a suitably melancholy and self-referential image for publicising the original series.
James Sey
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