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Panel Discussion—Stanley Kubrick, Futurist

A discussion of the visionary film-making of Stanley Kubrick and his prescient observations about man and technology, with Fernando Castrillón, PsyD; Dr Rodney Hill (The Stanley Kubrick Archives); Chris Noessel (Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction); and artist Binta Ayofemi.

Presented in conjunction with Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition.

about the speakers
Fernando Castrillon

Fernando Castrillon, Psy.D., presented Digital Teleologies, Imperial Threshold Machinic Assemblages and the Colonization of the Cosmos: A Post-Structuralist Interpretation of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey  at Multiversy. Dr. Castrillon is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Community Mental Health Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and is the founding director of CIIS’ The Clinic Without Walls. Dr. Castrillon is also a candidate psychoanalyst and is on the editorial board of The European Journal of Psychoanalysis. His publications include a special double issue of ReVision, entitled “Ecopsychology”, an edited volume: Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, and the Environment: The Experience of Nature (Springer Press), Translating Angst: Symptoms and Inhibitions in Anglo-American Psychoanalysis and Feminine Pathologies. He is currently writing a book on psychoanalysis in California. Dr. Castrillon maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in the East Bay. 

Rodney F. Hill

Rodney F. Hill is co-author of The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick and a contributor to several other books, including The Stanley Kubrick Archives (now in its third edition from Taschen) and The Essential Science-Fiction Television Reader.  Hill is Assistant Professor of Film in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, holds a PhD from the University of Kansas and an MA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  His essays have appeared in Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Literature/Film Quarterly, and elsewhere. 

Chris Noessel

Chris Noessel is the author of Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction. Noessel has developed interactive kiosks and spaces for museums, helped to visualize the future of counter-terrorism, built prototypes of coming technologies for Microsoft, and designed telehealth devices to accommodate modern healthcare. He is currently writing a book about the role of UX in narrow artificial intelligence.

supporters

Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.

Stanley Kubrick is an exhibition by the Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Christiane Kubrick, Jan Harlan, and The Stanley Kubrick Archive at University of the Arts London, with the support of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Sony-Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc., Universal Studios Inc., and SK Film Archives LLC. 

The CJM’s presentation is made possible by lead sponsorship from the Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation. Major sponsorship from Osterweis Capital Management. Patron sponsorship is provided by Gaia Fund, Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt, Nellie and Max Levchin, Julie and David Levine, RayKo Photo Center, Dorothy R. Saxe, and Wendy and Richard Yanowitch. Supporting sponsorship is provided by an anonymous donor, Naomi and Jeffrey Caspe, Dana Corvin and Harris Weinberg, Morton and Amy Friedkin, Rosanne and Al Levitt, Siesel Maibach, Shana Nelson Middler and David Middler, Shelli Semler and Kyle Bach. Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, Alvin H. Baum, Jr., Sally-Ann and Ervin Epstein, Jr., Joelle Steefel, Ruth and Alan Stein, and Wetherby Asset Management. 

Additional support is provided by The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s Bernard and Barbro Osher Exhibition Fund.

Major support for The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s exhibitions and Jewish Peoplehood Programs comes from the Koret Foundation.