Johannesburg 2nd Greatest City After Paris

William Kentridges ironic tribute to his hometown animated on the basis of 25 drawings is the first film of his Drawing for Protection cycle in which he unfolds the triangle between Johannesburg building tycoon Soho Eckstein his wife and the dreamer Felix Teitelbaum In this film he introduces the central characters of his metanarrative which located in a South Africa of the last days of a crumbling Apartheid becomes an allegorical reflection on sociopolitical power relations