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HISTORY OF THE MAIN COMPLAINT

Directed by William Kentridge
South Africa, 1996
Avant-Garde, Animation, Short
  • 66 minutes

Synopsis

W. Kentridge: ‘I wanted to see if I could combine my technique of charcoal animation with the music of Monteverdi. And I wanted to see if there was a link between seventeenth-century music and twentieth-century systems to investigate the body: CAT scans, ultrasound and X-ray equipment, MRI, etc’.

Synopsis

W. Kentridge: ‘I wanted to see if I could combine my technique of charcoal animation with the music of Monteverdi. And I wanted to see if there was a link between seventeenth-century music and twentieth-century systems to investigate the body: CAT scans, ultrasound and X-ray equipment, MRI, etc’.