Stanley Kubrick

Cold symmetry applied to human failure. Kubrick worked across every genre with the same detachment — institutions and systems shown grinding down the people inside them, filmed in precise one-point perspective and scored against the grain.

Signature

• One-point perspective and centred, receding corridors.
• Classical music set ironically against violence.
• Institutional processes — military, hotel, hospital — as antagonist.
• Performances pushed toward the grotesque by exhaustive repetition.