Stereoscope

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William Kentridge

Stereoscope ,
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35mm animated film 1999, 8 minutes 22 seconds
Drawing and direction: William Kentridge
Editing: Catherine Meyburgh
Sound: Wilbert Schübel
Music: Philip Miller
(Source: Deutsches Guggenheim)
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Description
The stereoscope is a device to make images appear three-dimensional by presenting each eye with a slightly different point of view of the same scene; in attempting to reconcile the difference, the eye is tricked into seeing volume. In Stereoscope the artist employs a reverse maneuver. A split screen dismembers three-dimensional reality into complementary but unsynchronized realities – a split suggestive to Soho’s divided self. Scenes of civic chaos point to individual disquiet and internal conflict, rather than attempting an objective portrait of external events
(Source: Deutsches Guggenheim)
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