A great example of guerrilla documentary making: performance footage and two dazzling interviews, to-camera readings plus a lot of great on the run coverage - all beautifully filmed.
Interviewers Olivia Dawson and Jo Chichester really get to the heart of this true American genius, and the insights into her novels, different lives) poet, muse, novelist, and so on) and connections from NY in the 1960s to Andy Warhol and far beyond to the San Francisco scene and biker chic of the 1980s will surely make for some terrific doctoral dissertations .
Much of the footage has already been incorporated into Barbara Kaspar's German TV art documentary : "Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker"?.
This lovely documentary is worth it just for the concert material but the interviews with this American poet-punk-maverick are just superb!
No wonder the film was screened at her memorials worldwide!
Interviewers Olivia Dawson and Jo Chichester really get to the heart of this true American genius, and the insights into her novels, different lives) poet, muse, novelist, and so on) and connections from NY in the 1960s to Andy Warhol and far beyond to the San Francisco scene and biker chic of the 1980s will surely make for some terrific doctoral dissertations .
Much of the footage has already been incorporated into Barbara Kaspar's German TV art documentary : "Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker"?.
This lovely documentary is worth it just for the concert material but the interviews with this American poet-punk-maverick are just superb!
No wonder the film was screened at her memorials worldwide!