ANAIS NIN VIDEOS

Anaïs Nin, 1998 documentary on the author and sexual adventurer
Directed by Coky Giedroyc 

Anais Nin Observed, 1974
The work and life of author Anais Nin, directed by Robert Snyder

Anais Nin documentary, 1966 

Anais Nin: Why I Write
Anais Nin, author, diarist and philosopher speaks from a Pacifica Radio Archives recording "The New Woman" from 1974, part of a radio series produced by KPFK 90.7 FM  

Henry Miller talks with Anais Nin about half-dead people (zombies) 

Anais Nin at Hampshire College, 1972 

Dominick Dunne on meeting Gore Vidal and Anais Nin in Guatemala
Archive of American Television 

Gillian Anderson reads Anais Nin’s passionate letter about sex and poetry

Ian Hugo films featuring Anais:

Through the Magiscope, 1969 

Melodic Inversion, 1958 

Bells of Atlantis, 1952 

Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1946 

WORKSHOPS AND PANELS: 

Anais Nin’s Influence: women who knew Nin talk about her writing, life and their friendship
Event honoring Anais Nin on March 28, 2015 organized by Steven Reigns

Anais Nin (February 21, 1903—January 14, 1977) was a celebrated author and diarist who documented her personal emotional journey in a daily diary that she began at the age of eleven and kept throughout her life. “Anais Nin’s Influence” presented 4 of the female writers/artists she mentored and befriended. Guest speakers included Valerie Harms: 12:20 Barbara Kraft: 28:33 Sas Colby: 46:55 and Tristine Rainer: 56:05 

Trapeze Book Release and Discussion of the life of Anais Nin
Steven Reigns and Tristine Rainer discuss Anais Nin and her time in Silverlake

Silver Lake Library sponsored this launch event for the book, "Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955” “Trapeze" fully documents the time when Nin's life became divided between two men, one in New York and another in California. Beginning with an apartment in Hollywood, then a forest ranger house in Sierra Madre, Nin and Rupert Pole eventually built a home in Silver Lake, which is where she lived from 1962 to 1977. 

A Call to Eroticism
Colette Standish Gunter with panel of speakers including Steven Reigns

To coincide with the current exhibition at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco,  ‘Anais Through the Looking Glass and Other Stories’ - an interpretation of the life and work of Anais Nin, ( On till the 10th June) this panel discussion ,’ A Call to Eroticism’ examines the need and importance to keep eroticism and erotic artists and writers like Anais Nin, our protagonist, current and relevant in todays contemporary world. 

Hammer Museum, Anais Nin @ 105 event, February, 2008
Steven Reigns introduction 

Tristine Rainer
Part 1
Part 2

Eric Lloyd Wright
Part 1
Part 2

Adam Barron
Introducing Bebe Barron
Bebe Barron on Anais Nin

Deena Metzger
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Steven Reigns closing remarks