How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

What if the greatest director who ever lived had one thing completely wrong?

A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness in his filmography. Kubrick's obsession with 'crazy' characters who meet an untimely death disturbs Philip, who wishes he could see Kubrick characters who manage their illness. The two directors go on a journey into Kubrick's films to understand insanity in our modern era.

Documentary·Science Fiction·Drama

1h 7min

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Derrick Gebhardt
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