Creates prints drawings, and animated films.
South African William Kentridge expresses his drawing techniques in black charcoal and ink. His drawings are used to construct on film by making erasure textured rubbings and then filming it repeatedly. He continues this process, giving each change to the drawing. A single drawing is then alternated on film to represent a narrative scene and then retouched again to make a still film.
The material and media discipline the artist has experimented with were black paper pieces which were used to construct human figures and animals. for example his work the horse is not mine is six minute stop motion animation which was extracted directly on film projection.
The artist often experiment himself posing in different style to show himself represented on film.
The style and techniques of his work are depicted in an innumerable repetition which involves transforming his distinctive charcoal drawings into a short animated film. The technique consists of drawing, erasing and reworking the same piece each time. He would then frequently take photographs of his image he makes and then erase each version.