Kathy Acker

Biography

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

Blue Tape (Tape 2)
Blue Tape (Tape 2)
The Golden Boat
The Golden Boat
IDn4
IDn4
Kathy Acker in School
Kathy Acker in School
Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?
Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?
The Blue Tapes
The Blue Tapes
Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker

Filmography

2016 Traceroute
as Self (archive footage)
2007 Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?
as Self
1998 The Falconer
as
1997 Kathy Acker in School
as
1992 Seeing Is Believing
as Kathy Acker
1991 IDn4
as Kathy Acker
1991 The Golden Boat
as Professor
1984 Kathy Acker
as Self
1978 Dear Jimmy
as
1974 Blue Tape (Tape 2)
as
1972 The Blue Tapes
as Self