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Today, I visited the absolutely fabulous Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. I don't want to say too much about the exhibition; rather I'd urge you to go and see for yourself. What I did observe though was that it was a rather fun place to explore. One thing that stuck in my mind was a small red book with the title "bible and selected Russian phrases". Obviously, it was from "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
The curators of the exhibition carried on this sense of exploration with funny juxtapositions. For example, from "2001: A Space Odyssey" you could see the mask of the ape in the inital sequence right next to one of the astronauts' helmets. A reflection, I guess of the way the bone thrown up into the air blends over into the space station, several thousand years later.
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| From 2001: The ape's mask |
From 2001: The astronaut's helmet |
I didn't take a lot of photos, primarily because I only had my cell phone with me, but here are two more, also from 2001:
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| From 2001: Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to use it |
From 2001: A glimpse of the space station (HAL?) |
You can also follow some other person around, a proud father, who was introducing his one-year old to the secrets of Kubrick's film making. I think the pictures portray the relaxed atmosphere and playfulness of the exhibition very well.
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Looks like this father preps his little boy
to become a B52 bomber pilot |
That kind of introduction to the real world
will have to wait for a few more years |
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Time travel though is perfectly acceptable,
in particular if happens on a copy of the 2001 set! |
But maybe not all parts of the 2001 set
were properly noted and recreated |
You can catch the exhibition in Berlin until April 2005, after which it will move on.
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