Despite a very early start to his filmmaking vocation, this methodical, patient (or possessed) perfectionist completed barely more than a dozen feature films in five decades of filmmaking. We will examine his art and aesthetics beginning with his earliest work as a low-budget genre director (Killer's Kiss, The Killing). Kubrick's short and antagonistic Hollywood career (the quasi-epic Spartacus) threatened to turn him into another generic, hack director and precipitated his self-exile to England, where he developed into one of the century's most controversial and brilliant artist with films such as Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove.