Anna Biller

Anna Biller is an independent American filmmaker. She is known for her visual style, and for her use of period genres and satire. Her 2007 sexploitation feature film Viva premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and won the Best of Fest Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival. The film was also entered into the main competition at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival.^[1]

Reason magazine called Viva an "uncannily precise rendition of the look, sound, mood, and arch dialogue" of seventies sexploitation films, with "high-key, pseudo-Technicolor lighting and spare, colorful set design." Biller's work follows in the tradition of the few women to work in the sexploitation genre, along with Doris Wishman and Stephanie Rothman.

Harriet Warman of Cinematic Investigations^[2] said of Biller's latest film, "Biller envelopes the viewer in a completely realised Technicolour world, at once removed from, and inherently familiar as, ‘real’. Real in the sense that Elaine’s entirely constructed femininity, functioning to give pleasure to the men she gives her love potion to, is only a slight exaggeration from the everyday standard of beauty with which women are still conditioned to comply. 'The Love Witch' was a particular highlight of IFFR 2016 – a gloriously seductive feminist work, and a distinctly pleasurable viewing experience."

Filmography

2016 The Love Witch^[3]
2007 Viva^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]
2001 A Visit from the Incubus
2001 The Hypnotist
1998 Fairy Ballet
1994 Three Examples of Myself as Queen

References

↑ "29th Moscow International Film Festival (2007)". MIFF. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
↑ "Sex, Beauty, and Role Play at IFFR 2016".
↑ "Review: Anna Biller's THE LOVE WITCH - Shock Till You Drop". Shock Till You Drop. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
↑ Staff, Variety. "Review: ‘Viva’". Variety. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
↑ "Viva". AV Club. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
↑ Dargis, Manohla (2008-05-02). "Swinging Suburbia and the Sensual City". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
↑ "Viva (review)". Entertainment Weekly's EW.com. Retrieved 2016-04-08.

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Precursors	American Association of University Women (1881) National Association of Women Artists (1889) New York School of Applied Design for Women (1892)

Venues or organizations	A.I.R. Gallery Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art (Brooklyn Museum of Art) Hera Gallery Lesbian Art Project National Museum of Women in the Arts New York Feminist Art Institute Soho20 Chelsea tArt Artist Collective Woman's Building Women's Art Registry of Minnesota

Exhibitions or installations	Womanhouse (1972) Three Weeks in May (1977) WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007)

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