Poster of Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris

Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris

Plot: William Kentridge’s ironic tribute to his hometown, animated on the basis of 25 drawings, is the first film of his “Drawing for Protection” cycle, in which he unfolds the triangle between Johannesburg building tycoon Soho Eckstein, his wife, and the dreamer Felix Teitelbaum. In this film he introduces the central characters of his meta-narrative which, located in a South Africa of the last days of a crumbling Apartheid, becomes an allegorical reflection on socio-political power relations
Release Date: Sunday, January 1 1988
35 years ago
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Portrait of William KentridgeWilliam Kentridge
William Kentridge was
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Portrait of Angus GibsonAngus Gibson
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