“Kubrick’s perspective in 104 seconds” (VIDEO)

Stanley Kubrick worked for years as a photographer for Look magazine before transitioning to filmmaking. He famously modeled shots from the period piece Barry Lyndon on 18th-century paintings by artists like William Hogarth. This spectacular edit by Vimeo user kogonada highlights the unusual symmetry of Kubrick’s films, and lets us zoom in on the effect of the single-perspective shot. The title of the video “Kubrick: One-Point Perspective,” refers to the graphic terminology for a vanishing point that directly faces the viewer. One-point perspective is normally applied to painting and architecture.  Too bad on the score though. More on Kubrick click here. Click here for Tarantino: from below’s and Wes Anderson’s: from above.