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Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?

Name: Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-01-01
Duration: 76 min
Rating: 7

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Documentary

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Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker. Through animation, archival footage, interviews and dramatic reenactments, director Barbara Caspar explores Acker's colorful history, from her well-heeled upbringing to her role as the scribe of society's fringe.

01-01-2007

1h 16m

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Main Cast

Jessica Jade Andres

Jessica Jade Andres is an American actress and model. She was one the first models for the clothing company American Apparel. She received her BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While in NYC she did film, TV, as well as theater with Ensemble Studio Theatre. She then moved to the west coast after she was cast in M. Night Shyamalan's live action film of the hit anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Known For

Just Go with It

2011

The Last Airbender

2010

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

2018

Unknown Actor

Known For

Reflexions

2008

Mary Lou

Kathy Acker

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

IDn4

1991

Traceroute

2016

The Golden Boat

1991

Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?