Reanimating Stanley Kubrick
Everyone get your tinfoil hats. Stanley Kubricks's science fiction masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is the foundation for one of the most captivating Cold War conspiracy theories: That the director worked with the United States government to fake the 1969 Apollo moon landing. Operation Avalanche, a film shot as a period documentary, follows two CIA agents given the job of faking the landing who meet with Kubrick on the set of 2001 for help with the project. Director Matt Johnson shows how his team was able to use still photographs and footage of Kubrick to bring the director back to life in the film.