Viva

Born: 1938-08-23

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


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Paris, Texas

as Woman on TV
Released: 1984-07-16

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

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Midnight Cowboy

as Gretel McAlbertson
Released: 1969-05-25

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

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Flash Gordon

as Cytherian Girl
Released: 1980-09-01

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

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Forbidden Zone

as Ex-Queen
Released: 1980-03-15

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

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The Man Without a Face

as Mrs. Cooper
Released: 1993-08-25

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

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Play It Again, Sam

as Jennifer
Released: 1972-05-04

A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife...

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The Beaches of Agnès

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2008-12-17

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

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The State of Things

as Kate
Released: 1982-03-22

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

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Sam's Song

as Girl with the Hourglass
Released: 1969-01-01

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

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Cisco Pike

as Merna
Released: 1972-01-14

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

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Necropolis

as Countess Bathory
Released: 1970-10-31

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

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Andy Warhol

as Self
Released: 1987-06-09

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

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Lions Love

as Viva
Released: 1969-10-12

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

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Ornette: Made in America

as Self
Released: 1986-02-21

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

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The Swap

as Girl with the hourglass (archive footage)
Released: 1979-10-12

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

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Be Pretty and Shut Up!

as Self
Released: 1981-03-04

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

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Birth of a Nation

as Self
Released: 1997-08-06

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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Ciao! Manhattan

as Diana - Vogue editor
Released: 1973-04-19

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

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Nico Icon

as Herself
Released: 1995-02-18

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

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Four Stars

as Girl in Bed
Released: 1967-12-15

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

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Home Movies: NYC to San Diego

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-01

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

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New Old

as uncredited
Released: 1979-11-21

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

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Langlois

as Self
Released: 1970-09-19

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

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Cleopatra

as Cleopatra
Released: 1970-07-30

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

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Lonesome Cowboys

as Ramona D'Alvarez
Released: 1968-11-01

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

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The New Cinema

as Self
Released: 1968-01-01

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

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Tub Girls

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-01

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

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Memória da memória

as uncredited
Released: 2013-07-01

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

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The Loves of Ondine

as Girl in Bed
Released: 1968-08-01

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

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The Nude Restaurant

as The Waitress
Released: 1967-11-13

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

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Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-01

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

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Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani

as uncredited
Released: 1969-01-01

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

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The Stone Age

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-31

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

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La deuxième femme

as Self
Released: 2008-11-30

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

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Jesus

as uncredited
Released: 1979-01-01

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

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Keeping Busy

as uncredited
Released: 1969-11-26

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

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Bike Boy

as Girl on couch
Released: 1967-10-05

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

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The Feature

as uncredited
Released: 2008-11-28

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

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Positano

as uncredited
Released: 2008-11-30

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

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Andy Warhol

as Self
Released: 1972-01-02

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

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San Diego Surf

as Susan Hoffman
Released: 1968-08-01

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

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Viva Varda!

as Self
Released: 1970-01-01

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

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News from Nowhere

as uncredited
Released: 2010-09-02

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

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

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1989-01-01

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

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1967

as uncredited
Released: 2015-01-01

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

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Blue Movie

as Herself
Released: 1969-06-12

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

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...

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The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1968-06-06

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...

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