Person

Kathy Acker

Acting · 1947–1997

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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  Memory Xperiment: Kathy Acker

  Writer

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  IDn4

  Kathy Acker

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  Variety

  Script

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  The Golden Boat

  Professor

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  Dear Jimmy

  1978

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  Traceroute

  Self (archive footage)

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  Kathy Acker

  Self

• Seeing Is Believing

  Kathy Acker

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  Blue Tape (Tape 2)

  1974

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  Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?

  Self

• 2020Memory Xperiment: Kathy AckerWriter
• 2016TracerouteSelf (archive footage)
• 2009Blood and Guts in High SchoolWriter
• 2007Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?Self
• 1998The Falconer
• 1997Kathy Acker in School
• 1992Seeing Is BelievingKathy Acker
• 1991IDn4Kathy Acker
• 1991The Golden BoatProfessor
• 1985VarietyScript
• 1984Kathy AckerSelf
• 1978Dear Jimmy
• 1974Blue Tape (Tape 2)
• 1972The Blue TapesSelf