Viva

Viva

Born: August 23, 1938
in Syracuse, New York, USA
Viva, born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann, is an American actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar.

Movies for Viva...

1967
Title: 1967
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
1967 (made in 2015) presents newly found and digitized silent 16mm films from the 1960s in the form of a four-part composition portraying a cast of artists, writers, musicians and actors who made up the bohemian underground of that time. The film recasts the essence of a scene whose participants have since been idealized as celebrities or else forgotten.
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Memória da memória
Title: Memória da memória
Released: July 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Reviewing home videos, filmmaker Paula Gaitán constructs a curious narrative about her youth while talking to her children. A filmic note in the form of an essay based on material made in Super 8. "Of which there are no limits, and full of affection and imagination", says the author.
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News from Nowhere
Title: News from Nowhere
Released: September 2, 2010
Type: Movie
After Eduardo, an Argentine loner on the lam, arrives in the U.S. illegally, he forms a relationship with a woman and her teenage daughter. Drama - - Demian Gabriel, Nicole LaLiberte, Viva
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Confession
Title: Confession
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Reel-to-reel video by Michel Auder, recorded 1971, edited 2009. Features Auder's former wife Viva.
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La deuxième femme
Title: La deuxième femme
Character: Self
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith (not always recognisable)... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.
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Positano
Title: Positano
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground community. Pierre Clémenti stays there for a while and makes images of dazzling sensuality. Beyond Pierre Clémenti's intimate love of these faces and bodies often naked in this Mediterranean landscape, the film reveals the moving beauty of a utopia where living together could still be achieved in a territory of sharing and permanent creation. Flow of perceptions of consciousness, visual impressions, physical impregnations, the work of Pierre Clémenti is an ode to sensuality and "life-cinema".
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The Feature
Title: The Feature
Released: November 28, 2008
Type: Movie
The Feature does not reconcile fact and fiction; instead, it blurs the definitions seemingly represented by the film’s two clearly demarcated registers: that of the archival footage and that of the new, theatrical material. In his guise as “Michel Auder,” living a fulsome and extravagant life, replete with beautiful women and a rock-cut pool overlooking Los Angeles, the art world is revealed as a sham, and his character exhibits a repulsive narcissism. And yet, when caught in quiet moments, something poignant emerges—a glimmer of truth that rebels against the entire endeavour. Or maybe, that’s what makes The Feature.
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Birth of a Nation
Title: Birth of a Nation
Character: Self
Released: August 6, 1997
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Nico Icon
Title: Nico Icon
Character: Herself
Released: February 18, 1995
Type: Movie
A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same woman, whom, you realize, just couldn't bring herself to care enough to live.
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The Man Without a Face
Title: The Man Without a Face
Character: Mrs. Cooper
Released: August 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Also suspected of being a paedophile, he is befriended by Chuck, causing the town's suspicions and hostility to be ignited.
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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
Title: Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
Character: Herself (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in collaboration with Simon Field.
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Andy Warhol
Title: Andy Warhol
Character: Herself
Released: June 9, 1987
Type: Movie
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends. Andy Warhol, the son of poor Czech immigrants, grew up in the industrial slums of Pittsburgh while dreaming of Hollywood stars. He went on to become a star himself.
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Ornette: Made in America
Title: Ornette: Made in America
Character: Self
Released: February 21, 1986
Type: Movie
Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.
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Paris, Texas
Title: Paris, Texas
Character: Woman on TV
Released: July 16, 1984
Type: Movie
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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The State of Things
Title: The State of Things
Character: Kate
Released: March 22, 1982
Type: Movie
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Title: Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Character: Self
Released: March 4, 1981
Type: Movie
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.
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Chelsea Hotel
Title: Chelsea Hotel
Released: January 3, 1981
Type: Movie
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy Warhol and William Burroughs having dinner; Quentin Crisp pontificating in a blue rinse hairdo on his balcony and Nico forgetting what she is talking about halfway through a dour rendition of "Chelsea Girls". A number of lesser-known characters also appear, linked together by a tour guide walking around the building and some sub-Shining sequences of a child cycling round the landings on a rickety tricycle.
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Flash Gordon
Title: Flash Gordon
Character: Cytherian Girl
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
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Forbidden Zone
Title: Forbidden Zone
Character: Ex-Queen
Released: March 15, 1980
Type: Movie
A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and friend Squeezit Henderson to rescue her.
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New Old
Title: New Old
Released: November 21, 1979
Type: Movie
"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, sets, and drugs, an accelerated world tour through various iterations of the counterculture.
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The Swap
Title: The Swap
Character: Girl with the hourglass (archive footage)
Released: October 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.
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Jesus
Title: Jesus
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered as a screening at The Kitchen in 1980 – mixes documentary elements such as footage of evangelical TV programs, books, cartoons, paintings, and other Jesus related imagery – with performances including Taylor Mead as a priest in the West Village and Florence Lambert playing a crucified Jesus. Also, intercut throughout are surprisingly candid interviews with Auder’s friends, family, and people he approaches on New York City streets about their faith and relationship to the world’s most famous person. Among those interviewed are Diego Cortez, Jackie Curtis, Gerard Malanga, Alice Neel (Andrew Neel’s grandmother), Larry Rivers, and Viva.
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Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
Title: Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New York. In Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol, Auder captures revealing moments in Warhol's public and private life: the opening of the 1970 Whitney Museum retrospective, a party held at John Lennon and Yoko Ono's home, a heated telephone conversation between Warhol, Viva and Brigid Berlin, and an illuminating interview conducted with Larry Rivers, the grandfather of Pop Art, following the publication of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol in 1975. The issue of money is a consistent topic of conversation with Viva, who after departing the Factory in 1969 sent Warhol a series of threatening letters demanding money.
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Ciao! Manhattan
Title: Ciao! Manhattan
Character: Diana - Vogue editor
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.
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Play It Again, Sam
Title: Play It Again, Sam
Character: Jennifer
Released: May 4, 1972
Type: Movie
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
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Cisco Pike
Title: Cisco Pike
Character: Merna
Released: January 14, 1972
Type: Movie
A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
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Andy Warhol
Title: Andy Warhol
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1972
Type: Movie
With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a brilliant manipulator, dedicated voyeur and person of astute commercial judgment.
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Chronicles: Morocco
Title: Chronicles: Morocco
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The Chronicles capture the natural and cultural beauty of Morocco from its ancient walled villages to its nomadic caravans. Music comes from everywhere. Edited almost thirty years apart, the two Chronicles together are a study in Auder's approach to his memories. The footage is all from the same trip that was a family vacation. Considering Chronicles/Morocco, 1971 a construct of emotional convenience unfaithful to memory, Auder decided to supplement the first version with a fuller account. The two works feature almost entirely different footage. There are, however, sections where one can see where Auder has omitted Viva. The star of the 1971 version is a young Moroccan Adonis who appoints himself tour-guide for a group of Europeans including Michel. The camera follows his charming antics as he flaunts his nubile body and rather blunt but effective skills as a hunter.
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Necropolis
Title: Necropolis
Character: Countess Bathory
Released: October 31, 1970
Type: Movie
A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision of Italian director Franco Brocani. Pierre Clémenti is Attila the Hun, naked and on horseback, while Warhol superstar Viva is a drunken and abusive Countess Bathory. A pop pastiche for the psychedelic generation, Necropolis features a soundtrack by Gavin Bryars.
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Langlois
Title: Langlois
Character: Self
Released: September 19, 1970
Type: Movie
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Cleopatra
Released: July 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's 1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton which Auder's cast watched and used as the starting point for scene by scene improvisation Auder drew his cast from Warhol's ensemble – including not only Viva and Louis Waldon, but also Taylor Mead, Ondine, Andrea Feldman, Gerard Melanga and others.
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The Stone Age
Title: The Stone Age
Released: January 31, 1970
Type: Movie
"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
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Viva Varda!
Title: Viva Varda!
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in this long-lost interview conducted for French television in 1970.
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Keeping Busy
Title: Keeping Busy
Released: November 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Warhol Superstars Viva and Louis Waldon are the main subjects of Auder’s first film with synched sound, Keeping Busy (1969), which was billed as “a film novel about what they did to keep busy.”
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Lions Love
Title: Lions Love
Character: Viva
Released: October 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
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Blue Movie
Title: Blue Movie
Character: Herself
Released: June 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Viva and Louis Waldon spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.
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Midnight Cowboy
Title: Midnight Cowboy
Character: Gretel McAlbertson
Released: May 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani
Title: Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the same passions, and from living the cinema as a challenge urgent and vital, suspended between dream and action.
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Sam's Song
Title: Sam's Song
Character: Girl with the Hourglass
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A political filmmaker finds himself in Long Island for a weekend where he finds himself entangled with a high-living, jet set crowd. At first it is exciting, but soon he finds himself disillusioned by their shallowness.
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Lonesome Cowboys
Title: Lonesome Cowboys
Character: Ramona D'Alvarez
Released: November 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.
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The Loves of Ondine
Title: The Loves of Ondine
Character: Girl in Bed
Released: August 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Ondine is a gay man attempting to re-adjust his sexuality via various encounters with different women. After trying his luck with three women, Ondine becomes a background character in a sequence in which a group of Latin American men, calling themselves The Bananas, engage in a food fight. Ondine then engages in a wrestling match with Joe Dallesandro, who is married to Brigid Berlin.
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San Diego Surf
Title: San Diego Surf
Character: Susan Hoffman
Released: August 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to them by a Mr. Morrissey of La Jolla Realty. Their daughter, Ingrid Superstar, is pregnant and on the hunt for a husband. Mr. Mead, who is gay, tries to pawn her off to one of the surfers. Meanwhile, Viva wants a divorce from her boy-crazy hubby, who wants a surfer of his own. Tom, a surfer, is inveigled by Mr. Mead to urinate on him. In a close-up, Mr. Mead receives Tom's offering ecstatically, after which he comments, "I'm a real surfer now."
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Home Movies: NYC to San Diego
Title: Home Movies: NYC to San Diego
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
“The film flickers through a millennium of culture as it would appear to a tourist. It is an intense film, yet there is an incredible wealth of information surprisingly accessible. Aside from the exciting experience itself, the breakneck history lesson is a reminder that the mind can move in lightning steps: The plodding way information is typically presented is an insult to mental capability.” - Bartlett Naylor
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The New Cinema
Title: The New Cinema
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, and already by 1968 it was changing how Hollywood thought and acted. The student film scene was getting ready to explode, and it knew it.
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Four Stars
Title: Four Stars
Character: Girl in Bed
Released: December 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in the basement of the now-demolished Wurlitzer Building at 125 West 41st Street in New York City. The imagery in the film is dense, wearying and beautiful, but ultimately hard to decipher, for, in contrast to his earlier, and more famous film Chelsea Girls, made in 1966, Warhol directed that two reels be screened simultaneously on top of each other on a single screen, rather than side-by-side.
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The Nude Restaurant
Title: The Nude Restaurant
Character: The Waitress
Released: November 13, 1967
Type: Movie
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string and a G-bestringed waiter.
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Bike Boy
Title: Bike Boy
Character: Girl on couch
Released: October 5, 1967
Type: Movie
Joe Spencer, a member of a motorcycle gang, is taking a shower. After his bout with personal hygiene, Joe encounters Andy Warhol's "superstars," who engage him in conversation. The superstars crack jokes he doesn't understand and continually correct his poor pronunciation in an attempt to deflate his machismo. In response to these provocations, Joe becomes more obscene and more boasting, but ultimately, he cannot compete with the put-downs that are part of the put-on performances of the Warhol superstars, who prevail over him in the end.
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Tub Girls
Title: Tub Girls
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
"Tub Girls" features Warhol superstar Viva lying in a bathtub with different people of both sexes, including Brigid Berlin (as Brigid Polk), who appeared fully clothed in the tub.