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Episode 95: Stanley Kubrick's Confession About the Moon Landing

In 1999, Stanley Kubrick — the most technically meticulous filmmaker in Hollywood history, the director who spent years researching and crafting 2001: A Space Odyssey, whose obsessive perfectionism was the stuff of legend — died in his home in England. Three years later, his daughter Vivian Kubrick issued a public statement. Its occasion was a mock documentary called Shooting Stanley Kubrick, in which an actor playing Kubrick "confessed" on camera to filming the fake moon landing footage used by NASA. Vivian Kubrick called the film disgusting and fraudulent. She was defending her father's name. The theory she was responding to had, by that point, become one of the most widely circulated and most creatively documented conspiracy theories about the Apollo programme.

In this episode of The Conspiracy Theory Analyst, we examine the Kubrick moon landing confession theory — the evidence its proponents marshal, the specific technical claims about 2001: A Space Odyssey's relationship to the alleged fake footage, the documented connections between Kubrick and NASA in the years before the Apollo missions, and the strange film The Shining, which some researchers have argued contains Kubrick's coded admission of guilt encoded in its imagery and symbolism.

The documented connection between Kubrick and NASA is real. NASA approached Kubrick in the mid-1960s to consult on the realistic depiction of space travel for 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film, released in 1968 — one year before the Apollo 11 landing — featured extraordinary space sequences whose technical realism was achieved using methods that had not been used in cinema before, including front projection technology that some theorists claim was subsequently used to fake the lunar surface footage. The relationship between the space agency and the filmmaker during the run-up to one of the most publicly scrutinised events in history is, at minimum, an interesting historical footnote.

The Shining theory, developed most extensively by documentary filmmaker Jay Weidner and others, proposes that Kubrick embedded in his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel a systematic series of references to the moon landing and his role in faking it. The number 42 on Danny Torrance's sweater — Apollo 42 — the room number changing from King's original 217 to 237, the average distance from Earth to the moon being approximately 237,000 miles — the layout of the Overlook Hotel set designed to be spatially impossible, like footage shot in a studio — these are the signposts the theorists follow through a film that Kubrick notoriously changed from its source material in ways King himself found baffling and objectionable.

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