William Kentridge: Oh To Believe in Another World
William Kentridge Oh To Believe in Another World
The book launch is conducted in the context of FWF PEEK project AR 721 “Atlas (of Creative Mechanisms):
[Curating-Conducting]” led by Basak Senova.
In 2022 William Kentridge made the film Oh To Believe in Another
World to accompany Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 in E Minor. The film was made to be seen alongside a live performance of
the symphony following an invitation by the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester.
The book Oh To Believe
in Another World – a publication in three volumes – offers a visual journey into the film and the processes of making that
went into its construction.
Volume 1 takes us through the 53 minute film, in a series of stills showing the trajectory
of the film – which follows the four movements of the symphony.
Volume 2 shows actors in puppet-like costumes designed
by Greta Goiris, performing different roles in the film against a green screen – later to be edited into the constructed spaces
in which the film unfolds.
Volume 3 examines the construction of the models used for the film – an imagined abandoned
Soviet museum – designed by Sabine Theunissen; and the making of the puppets, created by Greta Goiris, that appear in the
vitrines of the museum and which also were the basis for the costumes of the actors. This volume also includes an essay by
William Kentridge on the origins and processes of making the film, a text by Marina Frolova-Walker on Shostakovich’s Symphony
no. 10, and a conversation between Artistic Director Numa Bischof Ullmann and Chief Conductor Michael Sanderling.
Edited by: Edizioni Periferia
1. Vol 1: Hardcover 21,6 x 19,2 cm, 272 S./p.
2. Vol 2: Hardcover 21,6 x 19,2
cm, 96 S./p.
3. Vol 3: Hardcover 21,6 x 19,2 cm, 104 S./p.
Three volumes in a cardboard slipcase, EN
Essays:
William Kentridge, Marina Frolova-Walker, Numa Bischof Ullmann and Michael Sanderling
Design: Camillo Paravicini, Basel
ISBN: 978- 3-907205-47-1
CHF 120 /EUR 120
