Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Trailers

Traceroute TrailerWho's Afraid of Kathy Acker? TrailerThe Falconer Trailer

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.

Most Popular Kathy Acker Trailers

Total trailers found: 13

The Falconer Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean & reminiscences from various countercultural characters.

Memory Xperiment: Kathy Acker Trailer (2020)

14 July 2020

A short film based on the literary work of author Kathy Acker. Set in the 60's and 70's, a young female writer explores her identity through sex and writing.

The Golden Boat Trailer (1991)

22 June 1991

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 the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically compulsive assassin, as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams.

IDn4 Trailer (1991)

13 November 1991

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.

Seeing Is Believing Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who look for stability in an electronic world that lacks sufficient mediation.

Variety Trailer (1985)

27 February 1985

A repressed young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patrons of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling tickets.

Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker? Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

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

Blue Tape (Tape 2) Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

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 a second, related tape.

Blood and Guts in High School Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

"Blood and Guts in High School" features actress Stephanie Vella in a series of video installations that re-imagine punk-feminist icon Kathy Acker’s book of the same title.

Kathy Acker Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

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

Traceroute Trailer (2016)

28 April 2016

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 us to places and people that shaped and inspired his art and politics.

Kathy Acker in School Trailer (1997)

09 August 1997

Kathy Acker talks about being 14, hanging out at the New York Filmmakers Cooperative with Jack Smith, Stan Brakhage, and boyfriend P.

Dear Jimmy Trailer (1978)

25 August 1978

How to play a melody? A magic moment, unrepeatable. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Film as art as life as film.