Directed by Stanley Kubrick / Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke

One of the great auteurs of postwar cinema, the American director Stanley Kubrick left few genres unexplored during his boldly idiosyncratic career. A notorious perfectionist whose work rate slowed exponentially as the years went by, he made just thirteen feature films in fifty years of directing - but what films they are. Spartacus, Dr Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket - Kubrick’s oeuvre is among the most consistently brilliant in the annals of cinema. Four years in the making, his contribution to the science fiction genre has become perhaps his most exalted film of all. 2001: A Space Odyssey rewrote cinema history, its wilfully elliptical narrative and lengthy non-verbal sequences every bit as revolutionary as its astonishing special effects and its inspired fusion of space-age visuals with nineteenth-century classical music: having originally commissioned a score from Spartacus composer Alex North, at the last minute Kubrick replaced it with those unforgettable pieces by Johann and Richard Strauss. From the opening sequence on prehistoric Earth, where an alien monolith appears to tutor a tribe of hominids in the use of weapons, we travel through time via a celebrated match-cut from a flung bone spinning in the air to a military satellite suspended in space, and thence to a spaceship en route to the Moon, where an identical monolith has now been unearthed. The action next moves to the Jupiter probe Discovery One, whose inboard computer HAL 9000 has some ideas of its own about human shortcomings; and finally, in a sensory overload of sound and vision lasting almost 25 minutes, we travel ‘beyond the infinite’. Psychedelic, beautiful, and open to endless interpretation, 2001: A Space Odyssey is not just a classic of the science fiction genre, but one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.

Framed Dimensions: 330mm x 410mm

Acrylic on 300gsm Arches oil paper
Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.