Not to be confused “Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick,” a current exhibit in London featuring art inspired by the director, “The Stanley Kubrick Exhibition” has been touring the world with stops at Los Angeles, Toronto, Poland, and more. Featuring original props, equipment, costumes, and more items essential to the director’s career, it’s now at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, and Mythbusters‘ Adam Savage has posted his own video tour.
In the fascinating overview, he looks at the candles in Barry Lyndon, Kubrick’s own lenses, concept art from A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (which Savage worked on), the monkey costumes from 2001: A Space Odyssey, a model for Dr. Strangelove set, his preparation for his unmade epic Napoleon, which Cary Fukunaga is attached to direct, and much more.
Check out the videos below, along with pieces on Savage’s own model of the maze in The Shining, which has toured as part of the exhibit.
Stanley Kubrick exerted complete artistic control over his projects; in doing so, he reconceived the genres in which he worked. The exhibition covers the breadth of Kubrick’s achievements, beginning with his photographs for LOOK magazine taken in the 1940s, and continuing with his directorial achievements of the 1950s through the 1990s. His films are represented through annotated scripts, production photography, lenses and cameras, set models, costumes, and props. In addition, the exhibition explores Napoleon and Aryan Papers, two projects that Kubrick never completed, and the technological advances developed by Kubrick and his team.
This exhibition is organized by the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Christiane Kubrick and The Stanley Kubrick Archive at University of the Arts London.
The Stanley Kubrick Exhibition runs through October 30, 2016 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.