Video essays: Barry Lyndon explored

Watch our series of video essays exploring how art, literature, music and technology shaped Stanley Kubrick’s period masterpiece Barry Lyndon.

9 August 2016

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Barry Lyndon and Art

Explore how 18th-century art helped shape the look and tone of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon.

Barry Lyndon and Literature

Discover how Kubrick approached Barry Lyndon’s source material with the second in our series of video essays. 

Barry Lyndon and Music

Kubrick’s use of music is crucial to the form of Barry Lyndon.

Barry Lyndon and Technology

To capture the past, Kubrick looked to the future.

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