Sunday, March 21, 2010

William Kentridge

Animator, illustrator, video, call it whatever you want, I really like Kentridge's films. Although it may not fall into the category of physical video, the aesthetics of his work is inspiring. I like the melancholy and vintage quality of his work. His work at the MoMA is displayed as large projections so the emotion put into the work is easily felt. A lot of his work focuses on apartheid in South Africa, but also on the humanistic side of the perpetrators, an explanation of what goes through their minds. He uses a lot of anti-Semitic propaganda (the fat capitalist Jew) espoused by Nazis (by Goebbels to be exact) in the reverse way, to show the perpetrators, capitalists, of apartheid.
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