Viva
Date of birth: 1938-08-23
Place of birth: Syracuse, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Viva Auder, Віва
Biography
Viva, born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann, is an American actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar.
Movie Credits
The Man Without a Face
1993-08-25
Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfi
The State of Things
1982-03-22
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman
Flash Gordon
1980-12-05
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny
Viva Varda!
1970-01-01
Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in
Lions Love
1969-10-12
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie abo
Cisco Pike
1971-11-02
A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of con
Necropolis
1970-11-01
Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a
Bike Boy
1967-10-05
Joe Spencer, a member of a motorcycle gang, is taking a shower. After his bout with personal hygiene
Blue Movie
1969-06-12
Viva and Louis Waldon spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.
Andy Warhol
1972-01-02
With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this docum
Chronicles: Morocco
1972-01-01
The Chronicles capture the natural and cultural beauty of Morocco from its ancient walled villages t
Confession
2009-01-01
Reel-to-reel video by Michel Auder, recorded 1971, edited 2009. Features Auder's former wife Viva.
Sam's Song
1969-01-01
A political filmmaker finds himself in Long Island for a weekend where he finds himself entangled wi
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981-03-04
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter,
The Swap
1979-10-12
Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.
Cleopatra
1970-07-30
Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the
Play It Again, Sam
1972-05-04
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca attempts to get over his wife leaving him
Keeping Busy
1969-11-26
Warhol Superstars Viva and Louis Waldon are the main subjects of Auder’s first film with synched sou
Chelsea Hotel
1981-01-03
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York
The New Cinema
1968-01-01
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a conti
The Nude Restaurant
1967-11-13
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman,
Paris, Texas
1984-07-16
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his
Langlois
1970-09-19
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
The Beaches of Agnès
2008-12-17
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the F
The Loves of Ondine
1968-08-01
Ondine is a gay man attempting to re-adjust his sexuality via various encounters with different wome
Midnight Cowboy
1969-05-25
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he
Nico Icon
1995-09-08
A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to
New Old
1979-11-21
"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from mor
San Diego Surf
1968-08-01
Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to
Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe
La deuxième femme
2008-11-30
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting fr
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
1976-01-01
In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New Y
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
1989-01-01
Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Facto
Tub Girls
1967-01-01
"Tub Girls" features Warhol superstar Viva lying in a bathtub with different people of both sexes, i
The Feature
2008-11-28
The Feature does not reconcile fact and fiction; instead, it blurs the definitions seemingly represe
Four Stars
1967-12-15
Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (
Ciao! Manhattan
1973-04-19
Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity o
News from Nowhere
2010-09-02
After Eduardo, an Argentine loner on the lam, arrives in the U.S. illegally, he forms a relationship
Forbidden Zone
1980-03-15
A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gig
Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani
1969-01-01
Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in
Andy Warhol
1987-06-09
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole
Lonesome Cowboys
1968-11-01
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez
Home Movies: NYC to San Diego
1968-01-01
“The film flickers through a millennium of culture as it would appear to a tourist. It is an intense
The Stone Age
1970-01-31
"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
Positano
2008-11-30
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for
Ornette: Made in America
1986-02-21
Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.
Jesus
1979-01-01
Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their be
1967
2015-01-01
1967 (made in 2015) presents newly found and digitized silent 16mm films from the 1960s in the form
Memória da memória
2013-07-01
Reviewing home videos, filmmaker Paula Gaitán constructs a curious narrative about her youth while t
1/20/01
2001-01-01
Re-scanned TV footage of George Bush’s inauguration narrated in real-time by Gary Indiana, Viva, Ale
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990-07-18
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at
I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto
2024-03-20
New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three sh
Chasing the Dragon
1982-10-05
a fictional autobiography in which a day from the artist’s life—filtered, edited, mediated, and perf