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The continuing significance of Stanley Kubrick as an iconic image-maker will be reflected in an intriguing exhibition set to open in Dublin’s Light House Cinema next Thursday. John Maguire, film critic with the Sunday Business Postand Today FM, has gathered a selection of artists – some established, some upcoming tyros – and invited them to construct pieces inspired by Kubrick’s films.

“In the history of cinema, there have been very few individuals with Stanley Kubrick’s vision and nobody who could capture a moment with his sense of grace and wonder,” Maguire says. “From his first films, Kubrick showed a restless desire to innovate, to change perceptions, to show things in a new light. This is the function of the artist.”