William Kentridge: an animated life

William Kentridge combines the political and the poetic in allegorical films, charcoal drawings and large-scale installations combining film, sound, music and sculptural objects. He deals directly and obliquely with the troubled history of his native South Africa. Now 61, he first attracted international attention in the early 1990s with a cycle of films examining his homelands political upheavals through the characters of the capitalist property developer Soho Eckstein and his foil, the poet/l