VAGRANT FILMS R E L E A S I N G   VISUALLY STUNNING, 70`S SEXPLOITATION HOMAGE ``VIVA`` TO EXPLODE ONTO SCREENS APRIL 11TH IN MONTREAL AND VANCOUVER Toronto, ON-  Wowing festival audiences the world over with her 35mm lensed 70`s sexploitation homage,  Acclaimed visual artist Anna Biller`s VIVA, will explode onto the screens of Montreals AMC Forum 22 and Vancouver's Granville 7 on Friday, April 11th. VIVA is a cult freak-out retro 1970's spectacle, about a bored housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi is dragged into trouble by her girlfriend, who spouts women's lib as she gets Barbi to discard her bra and go out on the town. Barbi becomes a Red Riding Hood in a sea of wolves, and quickly learns a lot more than she wanted to about the different kinds of scenes going on in the wild '70's, including nudist camps, the hippie scene, orgies, bisexuality, sadism, drugs, and bohemia. VIVA is a highly stylized film that draws on classic exploitation cinema for its look and characters. Saturated to the hilt with vibrant color, and exquisitely detailed in its depiction of the period, VIVA looks like a lost film from the late '60's, even 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. Whether you're looking for naked people dancing, 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 Anna Biller Writer, Director, Producer, Designer, Composer, Performer, Choreographer, Editor   Anna Biller is an Internationally artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles.    Her use of film and work has given her opportunity to explore, distort, reinvent and examine male dominated genres of Horror and sexploitation ,  and express her affection for the works of John Waters, Tinto Brass, Radley Metzger, Doris Wishman and Herschell Gordon Lewis.   Visually stunning and deliriously campy,  her film VIVA gloriously recreates the swinging 60`s and 70`s era, With Anna herself diving in with aplomb, to the lead role as a sexually frustrated and neglected housewife looking for some satisfaction.   The film has played to acclaim at nearly 40 Intl. film Festivals including prestigious events in Rotterdam, Torino, Moscow, Stockholm and Melbourne.  www.lifeofastar.com/viva

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