Otip believe in another world is a stop-motion film set to Dimitri Shostakovich's tenth symphony. The composer always described it as a musical portrait of Stalin and Kentridge makes full use of its sly character. He made his film on a small-scale theatrical stage really quite tiny, not more than four or five feet wide. This work feels like a collage.
In the next instalment of our midterms series, we head to the suburbs of Atlanta in search of that rarest of political creatures: the swing voter. There aren’t many of them, but they may well determine which party controls the Senate. Luxury brands are changing their outlooks and offerings as they seek new markets and younger consumers. And our culture correspondent visits a retrospective of William Kentridge’s works.
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