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The Shining: A film crucial to understanding how Kubrick was able to get away with making films laced with occult references and alchemical imagery. Weidner believes this fraught adaption of Stephen King’s novel about an isolated writer going mad (King hated Kubrick’s adaption) is actually a cryptic confession by Kubrick of his involvement in the faking of the Apollo 11 moon landings!

And with that last statement we finally arrive at why Kubrick seems to have been allowed to embark on a career making movies with hidden alchemical messages and occult exposés.

Kubrick’s Apollo 11 deal

I first came across Weidner’s work on Stanley Kubrick when researching possible evidence for a faked 1969 moon landing by NASA. There are many theories claiming that the 1969 Apollo moon mission was faked, but Weidner caught my interest due to his comparative analysis of the moon landing footage with Kubrick’s special effects work in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

What Weidner was able to plausibly demonstrate was that the background sky in the Apollo 11 mission shots shared the same forensic tell-tale signs of Kubrick’s front projection technique used on 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I quote from the blurb to Weidner’s excellent documentary film Kubrick’s Odyssey Part 1:

“In Kubrick’s Odyssey, Part I, Kubrick and Apollo, author and filmmaker, Jay Weidner presents compelling evidence of how Stanley Kubrick directed the Apollo moon landings. He reveals that the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey was not only a retelling of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s novel, but also a research and development project that assisted Kubrick in the creation of the Apollo moon footage. In light of this revelation, Weidner also explores Kubrick’s film, The Shining and shows that this film is, in actuality, the story of Kubrick’s personal travails as he secretly worked on the Apollo footage for NASA.”

Having extensive experience in film production myself, Weidner’s technical arguments were powerfully persuasive. What we also learn from Weidner is that Kubrick, in agreeing to fake the moon landings, brokered a deal that allowed him to make any movie he wished from that time on with full artistic control. Kubrick had become an insider in one of the greatest alleged conspiracies of the age, but it was to cost him dearly and he would use his artistic freedom to subtly expose those behind the conspiracy.