Film
VIVA
Anna Biller • US 2007 • 120‘
35mm-Projektion • eOF • Österreichpremiere
16.07.2021, 19:30 Leokino
Viva, about the adventures of a bored housewife who takes part in the sexual revolution in California in about 1970, has many qualities and charms and some of them are indeed involved with the campy form. For instance, careful attention is paid to the colourful sets, costumes and hairstyles. Film maker Anna Biller took years to collect the most colourful and bizarre items of clothing and props. Biller also plays the leading role. Barbie is young, curious and naïve. When her husband leaves for a ski resort, she goes looking for love. Together with an adventurously oriented girlfriend, she first finds herself in a brothel, then with a marijuana smoking nudist/guru, and then with a glamour photographer – and everywhere people are only interested in one thing. The scenes follow one another at a calm, relaxed tempo. Viva makes it possible to see the way sexual morality and women’s liberation have been portrayed for 40 years in media, art and film from a different angle. And have we mentioned that the film was shot on 35mm? (IFFR)
Director, Writer, Edit, Music Anna Biller • Cinematography C. Thomas Lewis • Cast Anna Biller, Chad England, Bridget Brno • Producers Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Robert Scott
Anna Biller is an independent American filmmaker who has directed two feature films. Biller considers herself a feminist filmmaker and consciously explores feminist themes throughout her work, including exploring the female gaze in cinema. She is vocal on both her website and in interviews about gender inequalities in the film industry.