Multi-screened projection:
Video design | Catherine Meyburgh
Camera | Richard Pakleppa
commissioned by the Goethe Institute, Johannesburg
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“a truly fascinating and layered work which shouldn’t be missed”
Marry Corrigal, The Sunday Times
South African composer, Philip Miller collaborates with the world renowned South African choreographer, Dada Masilo to create a new score working with electronic sampling, African choral music,poly-rhythmic layers of drumming and hidden traces of the original Adolphe Adam’s original music.
Refuse the Hour’ chamber opera explores the nature of time (2012)
The Refusal of Time 2012. William Kentridge's five-channel video and sound installation The Refusal of Time (2012) is a thirty-minute meditation on time and space, the complex legacies of colonialism and industry, and the artist's own intellectual life.
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A multimedia installation. KABOOM! tells the story of the nearly two million African porters and carriers used by the British, French, and Germans during World War I in Africa. Set to a rousing, orchestral score co-composed by Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi’s, the monumental, three-channel work is projected onto a scale model of the stage.
William Kentridge’s and composers, Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisis exploration of Africa’s role in the First World War combines music, dance, film projections, mechanized sculptures and shadow play to illuminate the untold story of the millions of African porters and carriers who served—and in many cases died for— British, French and German battlefield forces.
William Kentridge’s monumental frieze Triumphs and Laments: A Project for Rome premiered with live theatrical performances with live shadow play and two musical processions, one an expression of triumph and the other of lament, choreographed by Kentridge, with original music by renowned South African composer Philip Miller.