Stereoscope: The Irrationality of Evil
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“Stereoscope” (1999) is an award-winning animated short film by the Australian artist William Kentridge, with music by South African composer Philip Miller. The film is about the position of the privileged white artist in the midst of a political system that he rejects, but of which he’s s also part. It’s about both the white bureaucrat who’s greedy and rich, and the creative artist as stand-ins for aspects of Kentridge himself. Apartheid, a system of detestable oppression, formed him, supported him, and made him a famous artist. He refers to it as a rock that he carries within himself.
In “Stereoscope,” one of Kentridge’s strongest films, the cold bureaucrat Soho sits at his desk looking at a framed photograph of his wife, who comes to life and couples with her lover, Felix Teitelbaum, a creative sensual personality. Crowds gather outside Eckstein House, Soho’s office building, which eventually disintegrates in a cloud of charcoal dust. At the end, Soho stands all alone in a room, his head bowed. He cries himself a bright blue river that rises to his knees.
The blue water is flowing everywhere, he’s dejected. The blue water is cleansing, but his world has disintegrated. He knows he’s guilty, but he can’t deal with it. His whole world was numbers, control, greed, money and paper pushing. The message fuses hope and despair: Nothing is stable, all that is done can be undone.
“Stereoscope” premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in April 1999 and was shown at the Venice Biennale 1999, and earned the Carnegie Medal at the Carnegie International 1999/2000. It was also awarded a Silver Spire (Television/The Arts), at the 2000 Golden Gate Awards, San Francisco.
This piece includes a number of color drawings from the film, as well as the acclaimed animated short film, “Stereoscope.”
Please visit my website to view the pictures, and to watch this very moving, award-winning short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/stereoscope-the-irrationality-of-evi...
In “Stereoscope,” one of Kentridge’s strongest films, the cold bureaucrat Soho sits at his desk looking at a framed photograph of his wife, who comes to life and couples with her lover, Felix Teitelbaum, a creative sensual personality. Crowds gather outside Eckstein House, Soho’s office building, which eventually disintegrates in a cloud of charcoal dust. At the end, Soho stands all alone in a room, his head bowed. He cries himself a bright blue river that rises to his knees.
The blue water is flowing everywhere, he’s dejected. The blue water is cleansing, but his world has disintegrated. He knows he’s guilty, but he can’t deal with it. His whole world was numbers, control, greed, money and paper pushing. The message fuses hope and despair: Nothing is stable, all that is done can be undone.
“Stereoscope” premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in April 1999 and was shown at the Venice Biennale 1999, and earned the Carnegie Medal at the Carnegie International 1999/2000. It was also awarded a Silver Spire (Television/The Arts), at the 2000 Golden Gate Awards, San Francisco.
This piece includes a number of color drawings from the film, as well as the acclaimed animated short film, “Stereoscope.”
Please visit my website to view the pictures, and to watch this very moving, award-winning short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/stereoscope-the-irrationality-of-evi...
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