Stanley Kubrick Filmography

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Digital video, 2:46 

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Frame slices taken at one second intervals from Kubrick’s entire filmography

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2019

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Stanley Kubrick Filmography questions our perception of traditional cinema when its temporal and spatial dimensions become augmented by computational processes. Here, a slice from the middle of frames sampled from all of Kubrick’s films have been arranged in chronological order and looped in an on-going animation. Modes of viewing have been structured by the technical conditions of film: optical transmissions of light through photographic processes, stroboscopic effects of images projected in rapid succession, and viewing such images in a darkened theater where attention is diverted to the surface of a screen. Yet, as with the abstractions of data in Stanley Kubrick Filmography, when a computer arranges thousands of film frames into slices, we are able to observe time and space through a type of machinic perception. This film considers how data extracted from a film at once offers new and unexpected ways of looking, while defamiliarizing modes of knowledge production that underlie the perception and understanding of cinema.

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Exhibited at: 

 

Strange Media, Ground Level Platform, Chicago, IL, November-December 2019.