The Spatial Psychology of ‘The Shining’
Rob Ager’s (obsessive?) analysis of The Shining suggests the spatial inconsistencies in Kubrick’s film are blatant and not just commonplace errors in continuity. I’m uncertain if I completely agree with him, but it’s an interesting peek into the film’s set design.
I’m new to Ager’s essays, but a look at a few of his other videos deconstructing films reveals an equally in-depth approach. Ager has also just created a horror film, Turn in Your Grave, and won me over with this comment on his blog about Christopher Smith’s Triangle — a film that made a far greater impression on me than Nolan’s Inception.
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[...] contribution to Iam8-bit, next month’s video-game-themed art exhibition in Los Angeles. * “The Shining: Spatial Awareness and Set Design”: A video essay by the Kubrick-obsessed film analyst Rob Ager. * Only one percent of the National [...]
Morning Cup of Links: How to Throw a Pie - Cine Sopaipleto » Cine Sopaipleto added these pithy words on Jul 25 11 at 5:54 AMThat was a great listen. Its hard to say if these oddities with the Overlook’s floor design are blatant or not. I think we have a tendency to think Kubrick planned out every inch of his films to a tee, but then we hear stories in which it seems Kubrick does not come across as meticulous in his approch as we like to think. Every movie has inconsistencies in them if we look close enough. I’m sure even Hicthcock had them, and he’s another that we like to think planned out every detail of his films to an obsessive degree. I would love to hear the stories of their “happy accidents” when it came to their films, since both Kubrick and Hitchcock are directors we tend to think don’t have them.
CardinalIron added these pithy words on
Jul 24 11 at
6:51 PM
interesting video clips. I am sure the spatial anomalies were intentional decisions taken by kubrick and Roy Walker (the production designer) to draw the audience into the unnerving and disorienting space that is the overlook hotel.
chris richmond added these pithy words on
Aug 05 11 at
9:25 PM
