Triumphs and Laments documents one of contemporary artist William Kentridge’s most ambitious and controversial projects: a colossal frieze along the banks of the Tiber river in Rome portraying the glories and tragedies of the Eternal City that was commissioned in the summer of 2016. The film, shot with exclusive access to Kentridge over the course of two years from his home in South Africa to the center of Rome, details the artist’s vision and his creative process in developing a work of art that will disappear in just a few years
"follow the less good idea; of course you start a rehearsal from something specific ; a music ; a choreography; but then on the edge of the carefully rehearsed, emerges something like a sparkle; an improvisation at the end of the choreography; you realise that the peripheral can be central. There's something political here, the big ideas, communism, capitalism, end of history, there is catastrophe lurking in big certainties. it's on the edge of those certainties that something organic might flourish. " (凭记忆，大意）。
"follow the less good idea; of course you start a rehearsal from something specific ; a music ; a choreography; but then on the edge of the carefully rehearsed, emerges something like a sparkle; an improvisation at the end of the choreography; you realise that the peripheral can be central. There's something political here, the big ideas, communism, capitalism, end of history, there is catastrophe lurking in big certainties. it's on the edge of those certainties that something organic might flourish. " (凭记忆，大意）。