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Mubi Takes Global Streaming Rights to South African Artist William Kentridge Series ‘Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Mubi has taken global streaming rights to influential South African artist William Kentridge's series 'Self-Portrait As a Coffee Pot.'
“Playfully deconstructing and assembling the pressing concerns of our time as works of art,” Kentridge uses “hand-drawn animations, dialogues with collaborators and doppelgängers, holds a light to unseen ideological forces that govern the world we live in,” according to a provided synopsis. The series is edited by multiple-Oscar-winning U.S. film editor and sound designer Walter Murch, whose name is closely linked to 1970’s directors such as George Lucas Francis Ford Coppola, and also by South African digital artist Janus Fouche and Kentridge’s regular collaborator Zana Marovic. “Throughout the process of making this series, as William has evinced the courage to engage the art form of cinema, I have found myself again overcome with emotions and wonder as illustrations dance across notebooks, a visiting chorus of singers finds their voice, received wisdom is challenged, artifice is unveiled, and we as viewers are invited to unleash our own imaginations and take part in creation,” said Barnes.
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