The Stanley Kubrick Archive is held by the University of the Arts London in their Archives and Special Collections Centre at the London College of Communication.Sarah Mahurter, The Stanley Kubrick Archive . EVA London 2007 Conference Proceedings , London College of Communication, UK.
History The Archive opened in October 2007 and contains material collected and owned by the film director Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999).Stanley Kubrick Archive, MuseumsWiki. 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 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.Taschen, The Stanley Kubrick Archives. .
Exhibitions 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.
+ List of Stanley Kubrick Exhibitions City Country Location Start date End date Frankfurt am Main Germany Deutsches Filmmuseum (Deutsches Filminstitut) and Deutsches Architekturmuseum 31 March 2004 4 July 2004 Berlin Germany Martin-Gropius-Bau 20 January 2005 18 April 2005 Melbourne Australia Australian Centre for the Moving Image 25 November 2005 29 January 2006 Ghent Belgium Caermersclooster 5 October 2006 7 January 2007 Zurich Switzerland Kulturhaus Sihlcity 26 April 2007 2 September 2007 Rome Italy Palazzo delle Esposizioni 6 October 2007 6 January 2008 Paris France Cinémathèque française 23 March 2011 31 July 2011 Amsterdam Netherlands EYE Film Institute Netherlands 21 June 2012 9 September 2012 Los Angeles, California United States Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1 November 2012 30 June 2013 São Paulo Brazil São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound 9 October 2013 12 January 2014 Kraków Poland National Museum in Kraków 4 May 2014 14 September 2014 Toronto Canada TIFF Lightbox 31 October 2014 25 January 2015 Monterrey Mexico Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey 6 March 2015 26 July 2015 Seoul South Korea Seoul Museum of Art 29 November 2015 13 March 2016 San Francisco, California United States Contemporary Jewish Museum 30 June 2016 30 October 2016 Mexico City Mexico Cineteca Nacional Mexico 1 December 2016 30 July 2017 Copenhagen Denmark Kunstforeningen 23 September 2017 14 January 2018 Frankfurt Germany Deutsches Filmmuseum (Deutsches Filminstitut) *Special exhibition: Kubrick's 2001: 50 Years A Space Odyssey 21 March 2018 23 September 2018 Barcelona Spain Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona 24 October 2018 31 March 2019 London England London Design Museum 26 April 2019 17 September 2019 New York City, New York United States Museum of the Moving Image *Special exhibition: Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey 18 January 2020 17 October 2021 Madrid Spain Círculo de Bellas Artes 21 December 2021 8 May 2022 Istanbul Turkey Istanbul Sinema Müzesi (Atlas Cinema) 30 September 2022 31 March 2023
References
External links University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre Stanley Kubrick Archive on Archives Hub Stanley Kubrick archive at University of the Arts London Online exhibition of materials from the Stanley Kubrick Archive Archives Hub Feature on the Stanley Kubrick Archive