Notes Towards a Model Opera
201511m
Director: William Kentridge
William Kentridge’s Notes Towards a Model Opera (2014–15) is an 11-minute video work that pulses with visual ingenuity and historical resonance. Crafted for Beijing’s Ullens Center in 2015, it dissects the Cultural Revolution’s eight model operas—propaganda ballets and plays designed to forge Mao’s ideal revolutionary spirit. Kentridge transforms their rigid ideology into a fluid, multi-screen meditation on revolution’s dreams and failures, blending China’s past with global echoes.
Runtime
11m
Language
English
Released
Jun 27, 2015
Runtime
11m
Language
English
Released
Jun 27, 2015
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