The premiere of William Kentridge’s new film Other Faces takes place at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg on Thursday 10 November 2011.
Along with the film, a collection of Kentridge’s drawings used in the film’s animation will be shown. Drawing fragments and prints will also be on show until 23 December 2011.
Kentridge used a 35mm movie camera to film the successive stages of charcoal drawings that are progressively altered through erasure and overdrawing. Other Faces forms part of the Drawings for Projection series, a cycle of nine films which Kentridge created between 1989 and 2003, addressing the doubling and contrary sides of the elf, personified in the entrepreneur/capitalist Soho and his foil, the poet/lover Felix.
Other Faces again follows the figure of industrialist and developer Soho Eckstein, as he moves through a series of collisions of circumstances and recollections. Johannesburg is the “scene” in which Eckstein moves, but appears as a subject in itself, rather than a context.
