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

Boston Underground Film Festival

The Boston Underground Film Festival is an annual event held in the Boston, Massachusetts area that specializes in alternative film and video. The Boston Underground Film Festival, also known as BUFF, is the largest underground film festival in New England, spotlighting short films and feature...

. Reason

Reason (magazine)

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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

Sexploitation

Sexploitation, or "sex-exploitation", describes a class of independently produced, low-budget feature films generally associated with the 1960s and serving largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films...

 genre, along with Doris Wishman

Doris Wishman

Doris Wishman was an American film director, screenwriter and independent film producer....

 and Stephanie Rothman

Stephanie Rothman

Stephanie Rothman is a film director, producer and screenwriter, known for her low-budget independent exploitation films made in the 1960s and 1970s. She was the first female to be awarded the Directors Guild of America fellowship...

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Filmography

• 2007 Viva
  Viva (film)
  Viva is a 2007 feature film directed by Anna Biller. It's a faithful homage to sexploitation films from the 1960s and 1970s, but with a feminist twist. The film has received mixed reactions, and "illustrates cinema’s unique ability to blend high and low culture." Viva premiered at the Rotterdam...
  
  
• 2001 A Visit from the Incubus
• 2001 The Hypnotist
• 1998 Fairy Ballet
• 1994 Three Examples of Myself as Queen