Gathering artifacts including original movie props, planning materials, camera equipment, set models and designs, Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition attempts to peel back the curtain on the perfectionist filmmaker’s self-taught interdisciplinary filmmaking approach. Often cited as perhaps the greatest and most influential director, this collection from his personal estate displays the minutiae that went into researching, planning, framing and filming his works.
We caught the exhibit at the new Istanbul Sinema Müzesi , a former palatial estate in the center of the city, with a sprawling history all its own. In the 19th century, a prominent banker named Agop Köçeya, whose family had acquired a fortune by loaning to the Ottoman Empire, acquired the land following the great fire of Pera in 1870.