Kathy Acker
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5431 |
| Birthday | 1947-04-18 |
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1974
Blue Tape (Tape 2)
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The day after recording the video piece that has come to be known as BLUE TAPE (but which was never intended to have a title), Sondheim and Acker made...
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Blue Tape (Tape 2)
1991
The Golden Boat
6.5/8
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling...
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The Golden Boat
1991
IDn4
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I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't have more time to destroy. Is my loneliness real...
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IDn4
1998
The Falconer
9/1
Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean &...
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The Falconer
1997
Kathy Acker in School
7.5/1
Kathy Acker talks about being 14, hanging out at the New York Filmmakers Cooperative with Jack Smith, Stan Brakhage, and boyfriend P. Adams Sitney. Sh...
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Kathy Acker in School
1992
Seeing Is Believing
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Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who look for stability in an electronic world that lacks...
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Seeing Is Believing
2007
Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?
7/1
Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker. Through animation, archival footage, interviews...
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Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?
1972
The Blue Tapes
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Serious discussions of art, philosophy & idealism are put together with explicit scenes of masturbation and sex, by writer Alan Sondheim and punk icon...
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The Blue Tapes
1984
Kathy Acker
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Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York.
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Kathy Acker
2016
Traceroute
6.308/13
Artist and life-long nerd Johannes Grenzfurthner is taking us on a personal road trip from the West Coast to the East Coast of the USA, to introduce u...
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Traceroute
1978
Dear Jimmy
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How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.
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