About Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot
| Title: | Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot |
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| Original Title: | Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot |
| Plot: | Prolific South African artist and filmmaker William Kentridge chronicles how he creates intricate, wall-sized charcoal drawings of the vistas from his childhood in Johannesburg and life-sized paintings of himself — all while ruminating on the puzzle of self-knowledge. |
| Cast: | [] |
| Director: | William Kentridge |
Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot
Uday Bhatia
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Chaos and creation in the studio
This series of video essays is a brilliant dissection of William Kentridge’s artistic practice and a lively covid diary
A portly white-haired man walks into the frame and, even before he’s sat, addresses the camera with some urgency. “Before he arrives, there are some things I just want to say. It’s about the nature of the structure of, and the destructure, and the non-structure of what we see." He lists the disparate thoughts running through his head: a green cake he once ate in Naples, the fish pie he must take out of the freezer, a line from Mayakovsky, digging in The Great Escape and as a young boy on the beach, a row of coffins for mass burial, the impending birth of his granddaughter