Viva

Viva

Birthday: 1938-08-23

Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, USA

Biography: Viva, born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann, is an American actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar.

Movies

The Man Without a Face
The Man Without a Face

Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfi...

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The State of Things
The State of Things

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman...

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Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon

A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny ...

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Viva Varda!
Viva Varda!

Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in ...

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Lions Love
Lions Love

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie abo...

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Cisco Pike
Cisco Pike

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of con...

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Necropolis
Necropolis

Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a ...

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Bike Boy
Bike Boy

Joe Spencer, a member of a motorcycle gang, is taking a shower. After his bout with personal hygiene...

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Blue Movie
Blue Movie

Viva and Louis Waldon spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City....

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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol

With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this docum...

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Chronicles: Morocco
Chronicles: Morocco

The Chronicles capture the natural and cultural beauty of Morocco from its ancient walled villages t...

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Confession
Confession

Reel-to-reel video by Michel Auder, recorded 1971, edited 2009. Features Auder's former wife Viva....

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Sam's Song
Sam's Song

A political filmmaker finds himself in Long Island for a weekend where he finds himself entangled wi...

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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Be Pretty and Shut Up!

The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, ...

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The Swap
The Swap

Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother....

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Cleopatra
Cleopatra

Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the ...

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Play It Again, Sam
Play It Again, Sam

A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca attempts to get over his wife leaving him ...

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Keeping Busy
Keeping Busy

Warhol Superstars Viva and Louis Waldon are the main subjects of Auder’s first film with synched sou...

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Chelsea Hotel
Chelsea Hotel

This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York ...

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The New Cinema
The New Cinema

Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a conti...

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The Nude Restaurant
The Nude Restaurant

At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman,...

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Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his ...

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Langlois
Langlois

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française....

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The Beaches of Agnès
The Beaches of Agnès

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the F...

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The Loves of Ondine
The Loves of Ondine

Ondine is a gay man attempting to re-adjust his sexuality via various encounters with different wome...

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Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he ...

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Nico Icon
Nico Icon

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to...

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New Old
New Old

"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from mor...

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San Diego Surf
San Diego Surf

Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to...

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Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe...

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La deuxième femme
La deuxième femme

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting fr...

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Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol

In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New Y...

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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Facto...

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Tub Girls
Tub Girls

"Tub Girls" features Warhol superstar Viva lying in a bathtub with different people of both sexes, i...

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The Feature
The Feature

The Feature does not reconcile fact and fiction; instead, it blurs the definitions seemingly represe...

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Four Stars
Four Stars

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (...

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Ciao! Manhattan
Ciao! Manhattan

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity o...

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News from Nowhere
News from Nowhere

After Eduardo, an Argentine loner on the lam, arrives in the U.S. illegally, he forms a relationship...

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Forbidden Zone
Forbidden Zone

A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gig...

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Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani
Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in...

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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole...

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Lonesome Cowboys
Lonesome Cowboys

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez...

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Home Movies: NYC to San Diego
Home Movies: NYC to San Diego

“The film flickers through a millennium of culture as it would appear to a tourist. It is an intense...

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The Stone Age
The Stone Age

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante...

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Positano
Positano

Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for ...

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Ornette: Made in America
Ornette: Made in America

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman....

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Jesus
Jesus

Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their be...

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1967
1967

1967 (made in 2015) presents newly found and digitized silent 16mm films from the 1960s in the form ...

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Memória da memória
Memória da memória

Reviewing home videos, filmmaker Paula Gaitán constructs a curious narrative about her youth while t...

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1/20/01
1/20/01

Re-scanned TV footage of George Bush’s inauguration narrated in real-time by Gary Indiana, Viva, Ale...

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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at ...

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I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto
I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto

New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three sh...

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Chasing the Dragon
Chasing the Dragon

a fictional autobiography in which a day from the artist’s life—filtered, edited, mediated, and perf...

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