Wikipedia / Stanley Kubrick Archive
Wikipedia / Stanley Kubrick Archive
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.
History
The Archive opened in October 2007 and contains material collected and owned by the film director Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999). 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.
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.
City | Country | Location | Start date | End date |
Deutsches Filmmuseum (Deutsches Filminstitut) and Deutsches Architekturmuseum | 31 March 2004 | 4 July 2004 | ||
20 January 2005 | 18 April 2005 | |||
25 November 2005 | 29 January 2006 | |||
Caermersclooster | 5 October 2006 | 7 January 2007 | ||
Kulturhaus Sihlcity | 26 April 2007 | 2 September 2007 | ||
6 October 2007 | 6 January 2008 | |||
23 March 2011 | 31 July 2011 | |||
21 June 2012 | 9 September 2012 | |||
1 November 2012 | 30 June 2013 | |||
9 October 2013 | 12 January 2014 | |||
4 May 2014 | 14 September 2014 | |||
31 October 2014 | 25 January 2015 | |||
6 March 2015 | 26 July 2015 | |||
29 November 2015 | 13 March 2016 | |||
30 June 2016 | 30 October 2016 | |||
1 December 2016 | 30 July 2017 | |||
23 September 2017 | 14 January 2018 | |||
Deutsches Filmmuseum (Deutsches Filminstitut) *Special exhibition: Kubrick's 2001: 50 Years A Space Odyssey | 21 March 2018 | 23 September 2018 | ||
24 October 2018 | 31 March 2019 | |||
26 April 2019 | 17 September 2019 | |||
Museum of the Moving Image *Special exhibition: Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey | 18 January 2020 | 17 October 2021 | ||
21 December 2021 | 8 May 2022 | |||
Istanbul Sinema Müzesi (Atlas Cinema) | 30 September 2022 | 31 March 2023 |
List of Stanley Kubrick Exhibitions
References
External links
University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre
Online exhibition of materials from the Stanley Kubrick Archive