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Tide Table (2003)
Directed by William Kentridge
Animation · 9m
The film sees a businessman (the Soho Eckstein figure from Kentridge's earlier films) standing on a hotel balcony watching the waves. Time passes, as the sea rolls back andforth in endless repetitions. We as viewers observed from his point of view. Then the scene shifts to a large drawing of a man, still in his business suit but now alternately sleeping and reading a newspaper at the water's edge in a deck chair. The drawing is folded into a series of images that provide a visual mediation on time's passage, on industry, on ildeness. Kentridge's work is often densely allusive, and here the film alludes to the Old Testament. The artist expressedly indicates that biblical accounts has informed his thinking. It is what he refers to as being 'over-determined' in that the motif arises from several distinct sets of meaning.
Crew
- Director
- William Kentridge
Details
- Release date
- 2003-01-01
- Runtime
- 9m
- Genres
- Animation
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- South Africa