Stanley Kubrick was self-taught, read widely, researched, and questioned everything. He developed plans only to abandon and redefine them according to his own unique and incomparable vision. As a director and producer, Kubrick created worlds of images that to this very day hold an unbroken fascination and continue to inspire and provoke their audience. The exhibition stands out for the interplay of materials from the Estate – props, written documents, photographs, technical film equipment – and walk-through installations that recapture the atmosphere and themes of the individual films. The interdisciplinary exhibition draws attention to Kubrick's visionary adaptations of influences from the fine arts, design, and architecture and enables us to experience the film cosmos of one of the great artists of the 20th century in all three dimensions.
Hans-Peter Reichmann
Director of exhibitions of the Deutsches Filmmuseum and
Organizer of the Stanley Kubrick exhibition
With the virtual exhibition "Stanley Kubrick - At the crossroads of a work", the Cinémathèque française offers a singular view of a few of the works from the temporary 'Stanley Kubrick' exhibition, which it is hosting from 23 March to 31 July 2011. Starting from reproductions of documents, objects and excerpts from films, the online exhibition creates itineraries – associations of images, connections between films or between an excerpt and an object or a photo... – in order to reveal constant features in the oeuvre of a brilliantly obsessive and methodical filmmaker. As a didactic extension in the spirit of the exposition, one of the aims here is to simultaneously place in relation films and themes of which Stanley Kubrick was fond and to create a dialogue between them.
Cécile Dubost
Director of online editions
La Cinémathèque française