‘The Kubrick Gaze’: a captivating tribute to the iconic stares of Stanley Kubrick films
Mar 23, 2016
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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Stanley Kubrick is one of the most iconic directors to ever grace the film industry. His unusual shots and techniques might seem unorthodox, but they’re what made him who he is.
As a tribute to just one of Kubrick’s many distinct compositions and shooting techniques, Spanish filmmaker Jorge Luengo Ruiz has put together a supercut of what is referred to as the ‘Kubrick Gaze’.
This ‘gaze’ tends to be a closeup shot of a subject, where it appears as though they are looking directly into the eyes of the viewer. The idea is that this device is used to draw in the audience, a trick that not only works, but further helps Kubrick’s films stand out as unusually gripping.
Ruiz has created dozens of other mashups and tributes, many of which revolve around Kubrick’s works, so head on over to his Vimeo channel to see more.
[via Laughing Squid]
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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2 responses to “‘The Kubrick Gaze’: a captivating tribute to the iconic stares of Stanley Kubrick films”
That’s the “narcissistic/predatory stare”, which only psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists are able to show you. Plus well-trained actors.
Kubrick simply recognised it and implemented it into his movies to make his characters more believable.
Calling it the “kubrick stare” shows a complete lack of knowledge on what you’re talking about.
That implies your wife is a sociopath..