David Rudnick 

Views of 2001: A Space Odyssey 

'I’ve tried to understand what the gift of silence feels like in the film and what the visual analogue might be in my practice. I prefer to think about the disparity between silence and voice in composition than “positive and negative space” and I owe that completely to Kubrick.'

'My dad used to subscribe to Sight And Sound [magazine]. When I was very young, three or four, barely a reader, I remember lying on the carpet on the floor of his office mesmerised by its issues. One had a feature on shooting or editing the Hal deprogramming sequence:

Kier Dullea as Dave, weightless in the red room. I had the feeling of recognition, which was impossible. I was fascinated. Years later I would get the same strong feeling when asked what my first memory was of being in the womb. Of floating in a space lit by yellow light through red walls with my eyes open. Only years after that would I read that Kubrick and Trumbull constructed the chamber with this visual metaphor in mind. My ‘earliest memory’ is probably a false memory; a thought that was Kubrick’s, not mine. That’s probably true of more of the world and the art that followed 2001 than we would like to admit.'