Gary Indiana

Gary Indiana is an American writer actor artist and cultural critic He served as the art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988 Indiana is best known for his classic American truecrime trilogy Resentment Three Month Fever The Andrew Cunanan Story and Depraved Indifference chronicling the less permanent state of depraved indifference that characterized American life at the millenniums end Indiana has written directed and acted in a dozen plays mostly during the early 1980s Performed in small New York City venues like Mudd Club Club 57 the Performing Garage and the backyard of Bill Rices East 3rd Street studio Earlier plays included Alligator Girls Go to College 1979 Curse of the Dog People 1980 A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking 1980 which was filmed by Michel Auder in 1981 The Roman Polanski Story 1981 Phantoms of Louisiana 1981 and Roy CohnJack Smith 1992 written with Jack Smith for performance artist Ron Vawter The latter was filmed in 1994 by Jill Godmilow Indiana has acted in several mostly experimental films by among others Michel Auder Seduction of Patrick 1979 which he cowrote with the director Scott B and Beth B The Trap Door 1980 Melvie Arslanian Stiletto 1981 where he plays a bellhop at the bellhopless Chelsea Hotel Jackie Raynal Hotel New York 1984 Ulrike Ottinger Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press de 1984 with Veruschka as Dorian Gray and Delphine Seyrig as Doctor Mabuse Lothar Lambert Fräulein Berlin 1984 Dieter Schidor Cold in Columbia 1985 Valie Export The Practice of Love 1985 and Christoph Schlingensief Terror 2000 Intensivstation Deutschland 1994 in which Udo Kier kills his character with a machine gun