Citizen Kubrick...

He only made 15 films in 48 years and three of those were shorts, (compared to Steven Spielberg - in the same time has made over 50)

In his only space picture - released a year before man walked on the moon - there is no dialogue for first 25 minuets and he stets the bench mark for all Sci-fi films to come.

He was notorious for multiple takes and over shooting, allegedly reducing Scatman Crothers to tears over his death scene in The Shining and shot 1.3 million feet of film. Using less than 1% of it for the final 142 minute print.

He refused to fly, despite owning a pilots licence and didn't travel for the last 40 years of his life, with the Isle of Dogs in East London doubling as a war torn Da Nang in his Vietnam War epic and forcing the New York street scenes of Eyes Wide Shut to be shot on the back lot of Pinewood Studios with meticulously reconstructed sets.

In the last decades of his life he was rarely seen and his last film earned a place in The Guinness Book of World Records as "The Longest Constant Movie Shoot" - over 400 days.

In my mind he was an enigma, one of the old greats, so very unique, no one made them like he did and no one ever will.

I was at university when I learned of his death, it was a sad week, but it only spurred me on to do well and follow my dreams of filmmaking and to learn from his oblique view on film all the film processes.

On the 15th of July on More4 at 10pm, a Stanley Kubrick season kicks off with a unique new documentary by writer and documentary film maker Jon Ronson - Stanley Kubrick's Boxes: An access all areas insight and a true behind the scenes look at possibly the last true auter.

I had the fortunateness to work on Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes, and I encourage all Kubrick fans and anyone with an interest in filmmaking to tune in and watch. It boasts strange facts and insightful interviews with close colleagues, ending with some never before seen footage taken on the set of Full Metal Jacket.

The More4 Kubrick season also promises to show some of his less seen early works such as Day of the Fight and his directorial debut Flying Padre.

Turn on, tune in and see how a true visionary lived a life in pictures.