Viva

AKA: Viva Auder, Віва

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1938-08-23

Syracuse, New York, USA

Biography

Viva, born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann, is an American actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {55}

Mrs. Cooper

1993-08-25 6.5

The Man Without a Face

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 h ...

Genre :Drama

Kate

1982-03-22 6.4

The State of Things

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 t ...

Genre :Drama

Cytherian Girl

1980-12-05 6.245

Flash Gordon

A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth. ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure, Action

Self

1970-01-01 5

Viva Varda!

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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Viva

1969-10-12 5.8

Lions Love

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood. ...

Genre :Comedy

Merna

1971-11-02 5.6

Cisco Pike

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. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Countess Bathory

1970-11-01 4.6

Necropolis

Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustratio ...

Genre :Fantasy, Horror

Girl on couch

1967-10-05 4.3

Bike Boy

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 jo ...

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Herself

1969-06-12 4.1

Blue Movie

Viva and Louis Waldon spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Self

1972-01-02 7

Andy Warhol

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 o ...

Genre :Documentary

2009-01-01 0

Confession

Reel-to-reel video by Michel Auder, recorded 1971, edited 2009. Features Auder's former wife Viva. ...

Genre :

1972-01-01 0

Chronicles: Morocco

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 Chron ...

Genre :

Girl with the Hourglass

1969-05-26 5.2

Sam's Song

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 ...

Genre :Drama

Self

1981-03-04 6.1

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

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 ...

Genre :Documentary

Girl with the hourglass (archive footage)

1979-10-12 3.7

The Swap

Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Cleopatra

1970-07-30 4.4

Cleopatra

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 ...

Genre :Documentary

Jennifer

1972-05-04 7.475

Play It Again, Sam

A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

1969-11-26 0

Keeping Busy

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.” ...

Genre :Drama

1981-01-03 8

Chelsea Hotel

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 Cris ...

Genre :TV Movie, Documentary

Self

1968-01-01 0

The New Cinema

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 i ...

Genre :TV Movie, Documentary

The Waitress

1967-11-13 6.1

The Nude Restaurant

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. ...

Genre :Comedy

Woman on TV

1984-07-16 8.1

Paris, Texas

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 ...

Genre :Drama

Self

1970-09-19 4.5

Langlois

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2008-12-17 7.665

The Beaches of Agnès

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed ...

Genre :Documentary

Girl in Bed

1968-08-01 1.5

The Loves of Ondine

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 wh ...

Genre :

Gretel McAlbertson

1969-05-25 7.5

Midnight Cowboy

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 ...

Genre :Drama

Self

1995-09-08 7.5

Nico Icon

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 ...

Genre :Documentary

1979-11-21 5.8

New Old

"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 ...

Genre :Drama

Susan Hoffman

1968-08-01 0

San Diego Surf

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 th ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Self

1997-08-06 6.3

Birth of a Nation

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2008-11-30 6

La deuxième femme

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, Phili ...

Genre :Documentary

1976-01-01 8

Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol

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 priv ...

Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

1989-01-01 0

Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

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. ...

Genre :Documentary

1967-01-01 0

Tub Girls

"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. ...

Genre :Romance

Girl in Bed

1967-12-15 2

Four Stars

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 ...

Genre :

Diana - Vogue editor

1973-04-19 5.4

Ciao! Manhattan

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. ...

Genre :Documentary, Drama

Ex-Queen

1980-03-15 6.2

Forbidden Zone

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 ...

Genre :Music, Comedy, Fantasy

2008-11-28 8

The Feature

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 ne ...

Genre :Documentary

2010-09-02 0

News from Nowhere

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. ...

Genre :Drama

1969-01-01 0

Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani

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 rollin ...

Genre :Drama, Horror

Self

1987-06-09 5.7

Andy Warhol

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 an ...

Genre :Documentary

Ramona D'Alvarez

1968-11-01 4.7

Lonesome Cowboys

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse. ...

Genre :Western, Comedy, Crime, Drama

1968-01-01 0

Home Movies: NYC to San Diego

“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 exci ...

Genre :

1970-01-31 0

The Stone Age

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante ...

Genre :

Self

2008-11-30 5

Positano

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 ...

Genre :

Self

1986-02-21 6.3

Ornette: Made in America

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman. ...

Genre :Documentary, Music

1979-01-01 0

Jesus

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 su ...

Genre :Documentary

2015-01-01 0

1967

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 t ...

Genre :

2013-07-01 5

Memória da memória

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 ...

Genre :Documentary

2001-01-01 0

1/20/01

Re-scanned TV footage of George Bush’s inauguration narrated in real-time by Gary Indiana, Viva, Alex Auder, and Nick Nehez’s grandmother. ...

Genre :

Self

1990-07-18 7.3

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing ...

Genre :Documentary

2024-03-20 7.3

I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto

New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three shots at him, who miraculously survives, but is seriously wounded. What led this woman to try to kill ...

Genre :Documentary, History, TV Movie

1982-10-05 0

Chasing the Dragon

a fictional autobiography in which a day from the artist’s life—filtered, edited, mediated, and performed by another actor—becomes the “ghost” of the person, a doubled identity that can never fully ca ...

Genre :

Self - Guest

1968-06-06 6.81

The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks. ...

Genre :Talk

Self

1962-10-01 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carso ...