Karen Finley

Karen Finley


in Evanston, Illinois
Karen Finley is an American performance artist, musician and poet. Her performance art, recordings, and books are used as forms of activism. Her work frequently uses nudity and profanity.

Movies for Karen Finley...

12 Rounds
Title: 12 Rounds
Released: June 23, 2000
Type: Movie
Brian Buzzini plays a bisexual boxer who's fighting his sexual orientation as well as his opponents.
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Fresh Kill
Title: Fresh Kill
Character: Bernadette Cherryhome
Released: January 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food.
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Philadelphia
Title: Philadelphia
Character: Dr. Gillman
Released: December 22, 1993
Type: Movie
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
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The Genius
Title: The Genius
Character: Kitty Church
Released: April 2, 1993
Type: Movie
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who also plays one of the lead parts. Gibbons plays a mad scientist who's developed a technique for transferring personalities from one person's body to another; he becomes obsessed with an outlaw artist (played by performance artist Karen Finley) who destroys paintings in various galleries as a form of anarchist, anticapitalist protest.
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Mondo New York
Title: Mondo New York
Character: Self
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of the city. She sees stand up comedy in Central Park, a prostitution auction, a voodoo ceremony, an S&M club, and a number of very interesting performance artists. These are just a few of the sights and sounds of New York that she encounters.
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Pranks!
Title: Pranks!
Released: March 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Video accompaniment to the book of the same name released by RE/SEARCH magazine, featuring interviews with Survival Research Lab's Mark Pauline, Joe Coleman, Karen Finley, Boyd Rice, and Frank Discussion. "Five Fabulously Funny Interviews with Fiendishly Flamboyant Pranksters discussing diabolical (and sometimes illegal) deeds. Dazzling deceptions and put-ons from some of the most outrageous artists living today."
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You Killed Me First
Title: You Killed Me First
Character: Mom
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing in her dank emo-den. When confronted with the humanity and hypocrisy of her tormentors, the young antihero vanquishes their belief systems (and bodies) asserting, "You killed me first!"