Kathy Acker
Birthday: 1947-04-18
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Biography: Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, the writer William S. Burroughs, the artist and theoretician David Antin, French critical theory, feminist artists Carolee Schneeman and Eleanor Antin, and by philosophy, mysticism, and pornography.
Movies
Blue Tape (Tape 2)
The day after recording the video piece that has come to be known as BLUE TAPE (but which was never ...
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The Golden Boat
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal d...
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IDn4
I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't...
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The Falconer
Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead,...
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Kathy Acker in School
Kathy Acker talks about being 14, hanging out at the New York Filmmakers Cooperative with Jack Smith...
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Seeing Is Believing
Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who loo...
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Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?
Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker...
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The Blue Tapes
Serious discussions of art, philosophy & idealism are put together with explicit scenes of masturbat...
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Kathy Acker
Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York....
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Traceroute
Artist and life-long nerd Johannes Grenzfurthner is taking us on a personal road trip from the West ...
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Dear Jimmy
How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as ...
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