Goodman

Screenings

William

Kentridge

Goodman Screenings is a monthly digital programme presenting a curated selection of artist films, documentaries, and multimedia works available to stream exclusively on our website for a limited time. Each screening engages with timely cultural moments and dialogues with the gallery’s exhibitions and wider programming. By offering access within defined viewing windows, Goodman Screenings preserves the immediacy of live experience while opening it to a global audience, bringing powerful moving-image works from the gallery and beyond to viewers everywhere.

William Kentridge’s Drawings for Projection is a body of work composed of short animated films created since 1989. The films trace the public and private life of Soho Eckstein, a mine owner and developer betrayed by his wife with the character, Felix Teitlebaum, a man who questions what is happening in the world. Soho and Felix become the figures through which Kentridge explores South Africa’s tumultuous history, interrogating its changing social and political realities.

Kentridge begins the films with a single drawing that he alters as the work takes form. The imperfect erasures of the successive stages of each drawing become a record of the progress of an idea and a record of the passage of time. The smudges of erasure thicken time. They also serve as a record of the days and months spent making the film, a record of thinking in slow motion.

This film screening includes the first four films from the Drawings for Projection series.