Stanley Kubrick Exhibit in Ghent
Belgian City Features Influential Filmmaker's Work
From now until January, the Belgian city of Ghent is hosting the Stanley Kubrick Exhibition. The exhibit features the American director and producer’s 13 feature films as well as projects, such as Napoleon and Aryan Papers, which were never fully realized.
Starting his career in the 1940s, Kubrick is considered one of the preeminent American directors. Taking on controversial subject matter, making innovations in special effects and altering traditional storylines into non-linear chronology are just a few of his contributions to the world of film making. His influence has been felt since the 50s and his work will continue to be emulated long after his 1999 death.
The exhibit now on display in Ghent was previously featured in Berlin, Frankfurt and Melbourne. It includes his 13 features films, essays by the filmmaker and others reflecting on his work, photographs, interviews with Kubrick. Additional iconographic items from his films, including costumes, camera equipment, props, documentation about the various special effects and other documentation about the films are on display.
Everything is presented in both German and English.
Kubrick’s 13 feature films are:
1. Fear and Desire (1953).
2. Killer’s Kiss (1955).
3. The Killing (1956).
4. Paths of Glory (1957).
5. Spartacus (1960).
6. Lolita (1962).
7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971).
10. Barry Lyndon (1975).
11. The Shining (1980).
12. Full Metal Jacket (1987).
13. Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
For more information about each of Kubrick’s feature films, click here.
Napoleon and Aryan Papers, two of Kubrick’s main unrealized projects are documented in detail. Kubrick had done extensive research on the life of Napoleon. Also included in the presentation is Kubrick’s adaptation of Louis Begley’s novel, Wartime Lies.
In addition, the ever-changing reaction to Kubrick’s films is documented. Although many of his movies were not well received initially, they garnered cult followings or earned critical praise later on. The Shining, for example, was not an immediate success, but eventually became a cult classic and is often listed, along with The Exorcist as one of the top horror films of all time.
The Stanley Kubrick Exhibition can be seen at the historic Caermers cloister in Ghent until Jan. 7.
