ARTS alive - Stanley Kubrick: Inside the Mind of a visionary filmmaker exhibition

Watch the media launch (excerpt) (Windows Media video for dial-up connection, 240x132, 5 minutes 19 seconds)

Watch the media launch (excerpt) (Windows Media video for hi-speed connection, 320x180, 5 minutes 19 seconds)

New! Watch the interview with the curators: Hans-Peter Reichmann, Tim Heptner & Maja Keppler (Windows Media video for dial-up connection, 240x132, 6 minutes 42 seconds)

New! Watch the interview with the curators: Hans-Peter Reichmann, Tim Heptner & Maja Keppler (Windows Media video for hi-speed connection, 320x180, 6 minutes 42 seconds)

Film buffs and art lovers in Melbourne are given a rare opportunity to closely exaimine the extensive works behind the remarkable cinematic images of from one of the most essential filmmaker of the 20th century.

Curated by the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main and Christiane Kubrick/Stanley Kubrick Estate, "Stanley Kubrick: Inside the Mind of a visionary filmmaker" showcases Inside the Mind of a visionary filmmaker more than 1000 props, costumes, models, written notes, sketches, clippings and audio-visual installations associated with his early photographer works, 3 short documentary films, 11 feature films (including 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Lolita, Dr Strangelove and Eyes Wide Shut) and 2 unfinished projects (Napolean and Aryan Papers).

As part of 2005 Melbourne on Screen program, the exhibition is now touring at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne until 29 January.

The ARTS alive website presents some highlights of the exhibition and a live recording of its launch, with the Premier of Victoria Steve Bracks and the ACMI director Tony Sweeney, on 24 November, 2005.

(Right: Christiane Kubrick, Stanley, 1972)

(For more info about the exhibition visit wesbite: www.acmi.net.au.)


Starchild from 2001: A Space Odyssey.


Reconstruction of the centrifuge model for filming the interior of the spacecraft Jupiter 1 of 2001: A Space Odyssey.	Replica of the bombhead from Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.


A Clockwork Corner: (right to left, clockwise) a doorway to the mature-audience-only display room that houses two scupltures used in the Korova Milkbar scenes of A Clockwork Orange, replica of the costume worn by Alex DeLarge, the gold record of the film's soundtrack, the clapperboard used during filming.	Jack Torrance's typewriter and his 'novel transcript' from The Shining.


The Eyes Wide Shut masks (left) used in the orgy scene, and (right) the one that haunts Dr Bill Harford.


Unused poster art design of Eyes Wide Shut

Recorded by Vincent Fok

Interview with Hans-Peter Reichmann, Tim Heptner & Maja Keppler conducted & edited by Vincent O'Donnell. Video components recorded and edited by Vincent Fok