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Arthur Jafa, artist, cinematographer and A-list collaborator, remembers vividly the first time he saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, aged 11, growing up in Mississippi. “I come out of it, literally, in a daze,” he remembers, “and I see the manager of the theatre, this white guy … I walked over to him and I said: ‘Excuse me, sir, I just came out of that movie, and, er, can you tell me what it was about?’ He just looked over his newspaper, and said: ‘Son, I’ve been looking at it all week and I don’t have a clue.’ That film was so deep that it levelled the differences between me and that guy. In the back of my head,...
Arthur Jafa, artist, cinematographer and A-list collaborator, remembers vividly the first time he saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, aged 11, growing up in Mississippi. “I come out of it, literally, in a daze,” he remembers, “and I see the manager of the theatre, this white guy … I walked over to him and I said: ‘Excuse me, sir, I just came out of that movie, and, er, can you tell me what it was about?’ He just looked over his newspaper, and said: ‘Son, I’ve been looking at it all week and I don’t have a clue.’ That film was so deep that it levelled the differences between me and that guy. In the back of my head,...
- 6/13/2017
- by Lauren Cochrane
- The Guardian - Film News
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