Twenty years after Stanley Kubrick’s death, an interesting exhibition at the Design Museum in London, running until 15 September, tells the story of his career as a film maker through over 700 rare objects, interviews, films, scenery, and anecdotes. In his thirteen films, Kubrick (1928 – 1999) explored different genres and topics, turning plot, through dialogues and silences, into a complex examination of trends or theories about man and society that would emerge later on.
His storytelling relied on a variety of styles, techniques and themes, including futuristic parody, verbal violence, visual contrasts, theatricality, the overcoming of boundaries, historical scenarios, the conflict between fantasy and order, the hypocrisy of power, and society’s contradictions, just to name a few.
