Kathy Acker

Born: 1947-04-18

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.


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as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2016-04-28

Artist and life-long nerd Johannes Grenzfurthner is taking us on a personal road trip from the...

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Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?

as Self
Released: 2007-01-01

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy...

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IDn4

as Kathy Acker
Released: 1991-11-13

I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I...

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The Golden Boat

as Professor
Released: 1991-06-22

Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap,...

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Kathy Acker in School

as uncredited
Released: 1997-08-09

Kathy Acker talks about being 14, hanging out at the New York Filmmakers Cooperative with Jack...

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Kathy Acker

as Self
Released: 1984-01-01

Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York.

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Blue Tape (Tape 2)

as uncredited
Released: 1974-01-01

The day after recording the video piece that has come to be known as BLUE TAPE (but which was...

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