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William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds’ screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art.
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Animator William Kentridge animates with charcoal on paper, leaving traces of
each drawing behind as the movement progresses. These traces lend a depth to
the image as well as the time of the animation. They also serve a narrative
purpose. Kentridge’s early animations were copied from early Soviet films, placed
in the Apartheid, South African context. Apartheid was a system predicated on
the exploitation of black South African labour in the interests of white South
African society. Kentridge uses his animation to express his feelings of guilt for
being a white male with inherited wealth and status as well as his personal
fantasies of acceptance and forgiveness. The layered shadows of previous
drawings that haunt his animations are ghostly reminders of the time that each
drawing took to make. Animation here serves as a kind of penance.
Working process
Examples of charcoal animation
See also performance from Whitechapel Gallery
Jonathan Hodgson is an internationally renowned animation director based in London, he has twice won BAFTAs for Best Short British Animation in 2000 and 2019. He studied animation at Liverpool Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. After spending 25 years directing commercials he moved to academia, setting up and leading the Animation degree at Middlesex University where he combines teaching with making personal films. He is the animation director of Wonderland: The Trouble with Love and Sex, the first full length animated documentary on British TV.
Goodman began his career as an illustrator and graphic designer, working for two of Israel’s major newspapers, Maariv and Haaretz. In 1998, he studied at the department of visual communication in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, majoring in animation. After his graduation in 2002, Yoni worked as a freelance animator and illustrator, working on commercials, short films and clips, as well as teaching animation in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
In 2004, Yoni worked as an animation director for Ari Folman‘s documentary series The material that love is made of. Folman and Goodman’s collaboration continued with Yoni as an animation director in Ari Folman’s acclaimed film Waltz with Bashir. Goodman also developed the Adobe Flash Cutout technique for the film.
In 2009, he made several short films for human rights organizations, notably the short film Closed Zone, protesting against the Gaza blockade.[1][2] Yoni also worked as an animation director in the short film The Gift,[3] directed by Ari Mark.
In 2011 Yoni began his work as Animation Director for Ari Folman’s feature The Congress (2013), based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem.
He also collaborated on a Global Health Media project about Healthcare literacy, notably on[4]
Yoni Goodman currently lives in Israel with his wife and 3 children.
Filmography[edit]
- Waltz with Bashir (2008, animation director)
- Closed Zone (2009, director)
- The Gift (2010, animator)(short film)
- “The Story of Cholera” (2011, director)(short film)
- The Congress (2013)
- “The Story of Ebola”
- “The Story of Coronavirus”