6:00 - 7:30
A thoughtful look at the outlaw writer and punk icon whose experimental novels, published from the ’70s through the mid-’90s, challenged assumptions about gender roles, sexuality and the literary canon. A beguiling and complicated 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. She lived and worked in SF from 1990 until her death in 1997, and the film includes commentary from many who knew her.
NR, 87 min., 2008. Closed captions (CC) in English.
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