William Kentridge's film

We are used to watch animated films with people interacting or dancing or fighting, etc. But what William Kentridge showed us in this film Shadow Procession using figures and shades of people walking carrying objects from one place no another was something I have never seen in my life. It is just astounding how people's imagination and creativeness goes to another level.

Shadow Procession begins with an emotional scene of figures, of people moving to a unknown destine. People including a miner hanging from a gallows, workers carrying entire neighborhoods and urban landscapes. We don't know where are they coming from, if they are running away from a dangerous place or if they are homeless people trying to find a place to stay, but we can see that they are determined to get to a certain place. Where is that place where Kentridge is taking them? or us?

                             



In my opinion, he is just persuading the audience to think freely. We can think of anything, we can go anywhere we would like if something is not right. We want to be in a place where we feel comfortable, loved, and peace no matter if we are rich or poor, or single or with a family.