Vivian Kubrick
American film composer and director (born 1960)
Vivian Vanessa Kubrick (born August 5, 1960), also credited under the pseudonym Abigail Mead, is an American film composer and director. She is the youngest daughter of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and his third wife Christiane.
Early life
Vivian Vanessa Kubrick was born on August 5, 1960, to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and German-born actress Christiane Kubrick (née Harlan). She had an elder sister, Anya, born April 6, 1959, and an elder half-sister, Katharina, from her mother's first marriage.
Career
Kubrick appears in four of her father's films: as Dr. Floyd's daughter, nicknamed "Squirt", in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), as a guest at Bryan's birthday party in Barry Lyndon (1975), as a guest on a ballroom couch in The Shining (1980), and as a news camera operator at the site of a mass grave depicted in Full Metal Jacket (1987).
At age 17, Kubrick directed and filmed a 35-minute documentary for the BBC, The Making of The Shining, which was edited by Gordon Stainforth and had some footage removed by Stanley Kubrick. After the release of the documentary in 1980, it became popular on the Kubrick fan newsgroup alt.movies.kubrick (amk) and was distributed on DVDs of The Shining.
Kubrick supervised and composed the score to Full Metal Jacket, using the pseudonym Abigail Mead. In 1986, she shot footage for a documentary on the making of the film, but it was not completed.
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