History of the Main Complaint

History of the Main Complaint is the sixth work in William Kentridge's landmark Drawings for Projection series of innovative stop-motion films made from meticulously rendered and erased charcoal drawings. This animation is constructed from a body of approximately twenty-one drawings. Created shortly after the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995, the piece investigates the complicated legacy of South Africa's Apartheid system by tracing a journey through the conflicted unconscious of its white pro- tagonist, Soho Eckstein.