Synopsis

William Kentridge’s History of the Main Complaint is one of nine video pieces of a collection „9 Drawings for Projection” produced between 1989 and 2003. The videos are comprised of a series of 35 mm photographs of Kentridge’s evolving charcoal drawings. Each drawing is photographed before parts of the drawing are painstakingly erased, re-drawn, re-photographed, and assembled to unfold Kentridge’s narrative.