Much like the Star Child of the film, the origins of this video are a little complicated and weird. Kubrick doesn’t appear in person in the video, just his voice, so we can’t confirm it’s really him—but it does sound like the famous filmmaker.
According to the YouTube channel that posted the video, the footage is from filmmaker Jun’ichi Yaoi. In 1980, he was making a documentary about paranormal experiences and chose to explore Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining through a set visit and interviews. The feature was never released but, reportedly, a VHS of the raw footage sold on eBay in 2016 and has now made its way online.
It’s a full one-hour, 24-minute video which, at one point, features Yaoi speaking to Kubrick on the phone. That’s when he asks him about 2001, which is the clip below. This is one of those videos that feels too good to be true so we suggest you take it with a tiny grain of salt. But listen in.
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