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In honor of the current exhibition, NSFW: Female Gaze co-curated by Creators (Vice Media) at the Museum of Sex the Anthology Film Archives is hosting a double-feature screening of filmmaker Anna Biller’s VIVA and THE LOVE WITCH, on the original 35mm film. The screening is next Thursday, July 13th, VIVA starts at 6:30 and The Love Witch starts at 9:15. Tickets for the event are $15 and include both movies.
ABOUT VIVA
2007, 120 min, 35mm
VIVA is a cult freak-out retro 1970s spectacle, about a bored housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Barbi becomes a Red Riding Hood in a sea of wolves, and quickly learns a lot more than she wanted to about the various scenes going on in the wild 70s, including nudist camps, the hippie milieu, orgies, bisexuality, sadism, drugs, and bohemia. Saturated with vibrant color and exquisitely detailed in its depiction of the period, VIVA looks like a lost film from the period, down to the campy and self-assured performances, the big lighting, the plethora of negligées, and the delirious assortment of Salvation Army ashtrays, lamps, fabrics, and bric-a-brac. Featuring naked dancers, alcoholic swingers, stylish sex scenes, a sea of polyester, Hammond organ jams, glitzy show numbers, white horses, blondes in the bathtub, gay hairdressers, or psychedelic animation, VIVA has it all!
ABOUT THE LOVE WITCH
2016, 120 min, 35mm
The Manhattan premiere of the 35mm print of THE LOVE WITCH!
Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. Her spells work too well, however, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the 1960s, THE LOVE WITCH explores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism.
“I wanted to make a movie about a witch, because I think that every woman is made to feel like a witch by the men who don’t understand her: that is, mysterious, dangerous, different, abnormal.” –Anna Biller
Anna Biller has established herself as one of the most exciting of contemporary independent American filmmakers, creating lavish films with stunning Technicolor aesthetics and strong female protagonists. Every aspect of her work is deeply researched and considered – she makes her own costumes, set designs, props, paintings, and scores for her films, and often stars as well. Biller produces cinema with a focus on visual pleasure for women, referencing historical genres to talk about female roles within culture, coding feminist ideas within cinematic aesthetics.
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave (SW Corner of 2nd Ave and 2nd Street)
New York, NY 10003
Link to purchase tickets:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2017#showing-47660
