Notes

Felix in Exile, one of Kentridge's most important works, was the fifth of eight films that occupied the artist between 1989 and 1999. Each of these films consisted of thirty to forty drawings; each engaged editing, dissolving, erasing and overdrawing techniques, not simply as a form of animation, but as a conscious part of the artistic process.¹ This deserted landscape, Felix's homeland, was used as the backdrop for the film's credits.

'In the same way that there is a human act of dismembering the past,' Kentridge wrote by way of introduction to Felix in Exile, 'there is a natural process in the terrain through erosion, growth, dilapidation that also seeks to blot out events. In South Africa this process has other dimensions. The very term new South Africa has within it the idea of a painting over the old, the natural process of dismembering, the naturalization of things new.'²

This work was used as the backdrop for the credits of the film - the final deserted landscape of the main protagonist Felix's homeland.

¹ William Kentridge: Felix in Exile, [Online], Available: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/felix-in-exile/
² William Kentridge, [Online], Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kentridge