Movie Details
Original Language:English
Tide Table
Audience Score
9 minAnimation
The film sees a businessman the Soho Eckstein figure from Kentridges earlier films standing on a hotel balcony watching the waves Time passes as the sea rolls back andforth in endless repetitions We as viewers observed from his point of view Then the scene shifts to a large drawing of a man still in his business suit but now alternately sleeping and reading a newspaper at the waters edge in a deck chair The drawing is folded into a series of images that provide a visual mediation on times passage on industry on ildeness Kentridges work is often densely allusive and here the film alludes to the Old Testament The artist expressedly indicates that biblical accounts has informed his thinking It is what he refers to as being overdetermined in that the motif arises from several distinct sets of meaning
DirectorWilliam Kentridge
