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Stanley Kubrick Archive

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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

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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

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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

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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]

List of Stanley Kubrick Exhibitions[5]
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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Stanley Kubrick Archive, MuseumsWiki.
  3. ^ Taschen, The Stanley Kubrick Archives. ISBN 978-3-8228-2284-5.
  4. ^ "Stanley Kubrick Exhibition".
  5. ^ "Exhibition Tour - Stanley Kubrick Exhibition". Stanley Kubrick Exhibition. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
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