Stanley Kubrick Archive
The Stanley Kubrick Archive is held by the University of the Arts London in their Archives and Special Collection Centre at the London College of Communication.[1]
History
[edit]The Archive opened in October 2007 and contains material collected and owned by the film director Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999).[2] It was transferred from his home in 2007 through a gift by his family. It contains much of Kubrick's working material that was accumulated during his lifetime.
Collection
[edit]The collection spans Kubrick's career as a photographer for Look and as a film director. His films are: Fear and Desire, Killer's Kiss, The Killing, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick also planned to make a number of other films; two in particular were abandoned just before production, Napoleon and The Aryan Papers. He also played an important role in the conception of AI: Artificial Intelligence, although it was completed after his death by Steven Spielberg.
The collection held by the university is made up of a range of material including props, scripts, research, production paperwork such as call sheets, costumes and photographs for all his films and Look, as well as material for those projects that were conceived but never visualised. By maintaining a high degree of control in the film making process, Kubrick was able to retain material generated by his pioneering techniques, research and production work: arguably making this collection one of the most complete examples of film making practice worldwide.[3]
Exhibitions
[edit]The archive, prior to its donation to the university, is the subject of the documentary Stanley Kubrick's Boxes by Jon Ronson.
An internationally touring Stanley Kubrick exhibition (select dates between 2004-2023) included objects from the archive.[4]
| City | Country | Location | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frankfurt am Main | Germany | Deutsches Filmmuseum (Deutsches Filminstitut) and Deutsches Architekturmuseum | March 31, 2004 | July 04, 2004 |
| Berlin | Germany | Martin-Gropius-Bau | January 20, 2005 | April 18, 2005 |
| Melbourne | Australia | Australian Centre for the Moving Image | November 25, 2005 | January 29, 2006 |
| Ghent | Belgium | Caermersclooster | October 5, 2006 | January 7, 2007 |
| Zurich | Switzerland | Kulturhaus Sihlcity | April 26, 2007 | September 2, 2007 |
| Rome | Italy | Palazzo delle Esposizioni | October 6, 2007 | January 6, 2008 |
| Paris | France | Cinémathèque française | March 23, 2011 | July 31, 2011 |
| Amsterdam | Netherlands | EYE Film Institute Netherlands | June 21, 2012 | September 9, 2012 |
| Los Angeles, California | United States | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | November 1, 2012 | June 30, 2013 |
| São Paulo | Brazil | São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound | October 9, 2013 | January 12, 2014 |
| Kraków | Poland | National Museum in Kraków | May 4, 2014 | September 14, 2014 |
| Toronto | Canada | TIFF Lightbox | October 31, 2014 | January 25, 2015 |
| Monterrey | Mexico | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey | March 6, 2015 | July 26, 2015 |
| Seoul | South Korea | Seoul Museum of Art | November 29, 2015 | March 13, 2016 |
| San Francisco, California | United States | Contemporary Jewish Museum | June 30, 2016 | October 30, 2016 |
| Mexico City | Mexico | Cineteca Nacional Mexico | December 1, 2016 | July 30, 2017 |
| Copenhagen | Denmark | Kunstforeningen | September 23, 2017 | January 14, 2018 |
| Frankfurt | Germany | Deutsches Filmmuseum (Deutsches Filminstitut) *Special exhibition: Kubrick's 2001: 50 Years A Space Odyssey | March 21, 2018 | September 23, 2018 |
| Barcelona | Spain | Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona | October 24, 2018 | March 31, 2019 |
| London | England | London Design Museum | April 26, 2019 | September 17, 2019 |
| New York City, New York | United States | Museum of the Moving Image *Special exhibition: Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey | January 18, 2020 | October 17, 2021 |
| Madrid | Spain | Círculo de Bellas Artes | December 21, 2021 | May 8, 2022 |
| Istanbul | Turkey | Istanbul Sinema Müzesi (Atlas Cinema) | September 30, 2022 | March 31, 2023 |
References
[edit]- ^ Sarah Mahurter, The Stanley Kubrick Archive Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine. EVA London 2007 Conference Proceedings Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine, London College of Communication, UK.
- ^ Stanley Kubrick Archive, MuseumsWiki.
- ^ Taschen, The Stanley Kubrick Archives. ISBN 978-3-8228-2284-5.
- ^ "Stanley Kubrick Exhibition".
- ^ "Exhibition Tour - Stanley Kubrick Exhibition". Stanley Kubrick Exhibition. Retrieved 20 June 2025.