Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith

Born: January 18, 1954
in Nuremberg, Germany
Kiki Smith is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS, gender and race, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature.

Movies for Kiki Smith...

Valie Export - Icon and Rebel
Title: Valie Export - Icon and Rebel
Character: Herself
Released: May 18, 2015
Type: Movie
She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual memory until today. The life and work of the Austrian artist Valie Export exemplify a development in art history in which women sought and found new ways and means of expression. Her work provides a feminist counterpart to the Viennese actionism of her time, which has influenced numerous artists of subsequent generations. The innovative diversity of her artistic approaches makes Valie Export an icon of 20th century art history.
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Pilchuck: A Dance with Fire
Title: Pilchuck: A Dance with Fire
Character: Herself
Released: March 28, 2015
Type: Movie
The Pilchuck Glass School outside Seattle has been going for 43 years. Started by Dale Chihuly, when glass in America was at its infancy. This school is responsible for making the US Studio Glass movement what it is today. It's an international institution now, bringing students from all over the world. It started in 1971, during the peace movements, Flower Power and war in Vietnam This documentary tells the story of it's beginnings, and how it's now made the Pacific NW, the largest glass art center in the world.
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Our City Dreams
Title: Our City Dreams
Character: Herself
Released: August 10, 2008
Type: Movie
Filmed over the course of two years, Our City Dreams is the story of a woman's struggles and successes as an artist in New York City. Told through five women artists, from youngest to oldest, the film features Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero. From the studio to the streets of New York, from the canals of Venice to the alleys of Cairo and the beaches of Phuket, Our City Dreams takes us deep into the artists' worlds.
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Cave Girls
Title: Cave Girls
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Shot in super-8 film, Cave Girls is a film by collaborating women artists chronicling the discovery of a prehistoric tribe of women in South Orange, New Jersey.
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Black Box
Title: Black Box
Released: November 20, 1979
Type: Movie
A man is tortured by his girlfriend and then locked inside a black box.
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The Deadly Art of Survival
Title: The Deadly Art of Survival
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo. Director Charlie Ahearn (who helmed the landmark hip-hop film Wild Style) used the housing projects next to his New York Lower East Side apartment as his central location in this 1979 classic, shot on a vintage Super 8 camera.