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24 August 2009 6:11 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker? is Barbara Caspar's multi-layered work featuring animation, archival footage and interviews with the likes of William Burroughs, Carolee Schneemann and Richard Hell to make a thoughtful and creative film biography/essay on the late outlaw writer and punk icon, whose formally inventive novels, published from the ’70s through the mid-’90s, challenged assumptions about gender roles, sexuality, and the literary canon.

The film screens on Sept 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 Pm as part of the Women Make Movies Film Festival in San Francisco, California, USA...

A beguiling and intensely contradictory figure, Acker is best known for books which creatively appropriated texts from Great White Male writers, retelling them in an emotionally raw, sexually blunt, and politically questioning female voice. With her conceptual art videos in the ’70s, her close-cropped dyed blond hair, her tattoos, and her piercings, Acker was a performance artist, proto riot grrl, »

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1 article from 2009