Exploring Stanley Kubrick’s Film Making at Design Museum, London
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The Design Museum, London, is celebrating the creative genius of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick with “Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition” that continues to be on view through September 15, 2019.The show marks the 20th anniversary of Kubrick’s death, explores hiExploring Stanley Kubrick’s Film Making at Design Museum, London
The Design Museum, London, is celebrating the creative genius of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick with “Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition” that continues to be on view through September 15, 2019.The show marks the 20th anniversary of Kubrick’s death, explores his process of filmmaking, and highlights his ability to don multiple roles from storyteller to director to editor.It features iconic scenes and unseen materials from the director’s genre-defining films, including “The Shining,” “Barry Lyndon,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Full Metal Jacket,” and “A Clockwork Orange.” Also on view are key works by designers such as Hardy Amies, Saul Bass, Milena Canonero, and Ken Adam, art and photography from Diane Arbus, Allen Jones, and Don McCullin designs from Saul Bass, Elliot Noyes, and Pascall Morgue, coupled with contributions from renowned directors.The internationally touring exhibition is on view in Britain for the first time, in a city that was Kubrick’s home and workplace for over 40 years. It highlights how the director created his genre-defining worlds step by step and how London became his experimental canvas.The exhibition features themed rooms, each based upon a separate film, including “Barry Lyndon,” “2001: Space Odyssey,” “Full Metal Jacket,” “A Clockwork Orange,” “The Shining,” “Paths of Glory,” “Spartacus,” “Lolita,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” and “Dr. Strangelove.” One enters the exhibition walking on a replica carpet from the iconic scene in “The Shining,” and then goes on to enter a ‘one-point perspective’ corridor mirroring Kubrick’s famous camera technique.“Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition” features about 700 objects, films, and interviews. It sheds light on Kubrick’s fascination with all aspects concerning design, focusing on the meticulous level of detailing that went into each of his films. His films had an uncanny nature of predicting the future, from the use of modern tablet to defining the aesthetic of space exploration a year prior to the moon landing, in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” 1968; to the use of NASA-manufactured lenses to film by candlelight in “Barry Lyndon” (1975), Kubrick was an innovative filmmaker ahead of his time.Apart from pre and post-production materials loaned from the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre. The exhibition also includes the centrifuge-set the director had developed for “2001: A Space Odyssey,” film props such as the ‘platoon flags’ and the infamous ‘Born-to-Kill’ helmet worn by Private Joker in “Full Metal Jacket,” and costumes worn on the set of “Barry Lyndon.”A vast archive of research and production documents, props, set designs, and storyboards have been included in the exhibition to bring to light Kubrick’s philosophy and his ability to develop unique and individualistic worlds within each of his films. Through the exhibition, viewers can dig deeper into who he was as a person and how he used innovative techniques to create his films.“Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition” runs through September 15, 2019, at the Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, Kensington, London W8 6AG, UK.For details, visit: https://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide-venues/756460/museum-overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more