Anna Biller

Anna Biller is an independent American filmmaker who was born and raised in Los Angeles.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.

Her latest film, The Love Witch, is a twist on classic serial killer films, featuring a female killer who kills through calculated sexuality, causing her male victims to fall too much in love.^[3] Richard Brody of The New Yorker said of The Love Witch, "Biller puts genre to the test of do-it-yourself artistry, and puts feminist ideology itself to the test of style. The film pulsates with furious creative energy throughout, sparking excitement and giddy amazement that it even exists."^[4]In May 2016, The Love Witch was acquired for distribution by Oscilloscope Laboratories.^[5]

Filmography

2016 The Love Witch^[6]
2007 Viva^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]
2001 A Visit from the Incubus
2001 The Hypnotist
1998 Fairy Ballet
1994 Three Examples of Myself as Queen

References

↑ "L.A.-Bred Filmmaker Anna Biller Made a Witchy Retro Masterpiece That Straight Guys Will Misread".
↑ "29th Moscow International Film Festival (2007)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
↑ ""The Love Witch" (2016): Serial Killing Meets Sexual Politics in Occult Thriller".
↑ Brody, Richard. "The State of Independent Film in 2016". The New Yorker.
↑ "Oscilloscope Laboratories Picks Up Anna Biller's Spellbinding 'The Love Witch' – Exclusive". Indiewire.
↑ "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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Feminist art movement in the United States

Feminist art Feminist art movement Women artists

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)

Films or documentaries	!Women Art Revolution

Publications	Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977–1992) The Feminist Art Journal (1972–1977)

Groups	subRosa Guerrilla Girls The Waitresses Women's Caucus for Art Where We At (WWA)

Lists	List of feminist artists List of women art historians

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