Dream videos

Automatic Writing (2003)
2:38
William Kentridge
Hand-drawn Animation

This short film is an animation created by W. Kentridge. It is mainly comprised up of drawn out morphing or evolving letters, numbers, and figures. It appears to be created on one piece of paper, evident by the erasure lines, with charcoal or pencil. The animationed process looks as if the artist drew and erased over and over, capturing along the way, so it gives the video a very distinct flow and look.


The over all landscape that W.Kentridge creates lends itself to an idea that one may be dreaming because of the sporadic positioning and movement of the subjects in the shot. They dont seem to have any specific line of direction. The Letters and numbers come and go.The random figures, which in the end, eventually evolve into a human form seem as if they create the main character. The Idea of automatic writing, or in this case the images created are also something that lends itself to a idea of dreaming because it deals with the subconcious and an image created, that comes from the subconcious, is easliy relatable to what most people see while dreaming.