INDUSTRY NEWS: The Mad Genius Eye of Stanley Kubrick

INDUSTRY NEWS: The Mad Genius Eye of Stanley Kubrick
8 August 2011 by jenn 1 Comments

Who cares that actors found him demanding. Years after Stanley Kubrick’s death, lovers of visual design and movie-making continue to obsess over his genius and recent exhibitions of his work have introduced him to a whole new generation of new media artists.Need a quick reintroduction? Watch this short animated video by French graphic designer Martin Woutisseth on Kubrick’s filmography.

Stanley Kubrick – a filmography from Martin Woutisseth on Vimeo.

La Cinémathèque française hosted a flagship travelling exhibition for 2011 dedicated to Stanley Kubrick. The show “owes its existence to the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt and to Hans-Peter Reichmann, its Curator, who designed it in 2004 in close collaboration with Christiane Kubrick, Jan Harlan and The Stanley Kubrick Archive in London.” The exhibit included installations, archives, filmography and achives creating an “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.”

In partnership with Dailymotion.com, the museum also created a graphic arts contest where “graphic artists, video artists, stylists, plastic artists: a whole generation of creative talents has turned to the work of Kubrick over the past 15 years, paying homage to him, questioning his work, remixing it, etc.”

Check out the fantastic works here.

Kubrick`s eye for design was second-to-none, including his obsession with san serif typeface, as explained in this 1994 article in The Guardian. Recently, the Library of Congress has released a collection of early photographs by a young unknown Stanley Kubrick when he worked for LOOK magazine in Chicago. The works foreshadow his moviemaking in their use of light and dark, their psychological insight and their aura of pure creepiness.

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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be aprogression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the

meaning, all that comes later.

-Stanley Kubrick