Lucy, (Anna Biller) a young Victorian woman in the Old West, is being tormented by nightly visits from an incubus (a horrible demon who has sexual intercourse with sleeping women). Her friend Madeleine (Natalia Schroeder) tries to console her, but is unable to help. A fallen woman, Lucy gets a job singing at the local saloon. However, the Incubus (Jared Sanford) has followed her there; and things take an unexpected turn as Lucy and the Incubus, amidst the rowdy cowboys and saucy can-can girls, have their final showdown. With beautiful period costumes and sets by director Anna Biller that are borrowed from 1950’s Technicolor films, plus big hairdos, weird musical numbers, and plenty of great character actors, this Horror-Western-Musical has all of the elements of a cult classic.

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Writer-director-pouter Anna Biller’s influences are as naked as her delightfully curvaceous body is in the riotous 1970s throwback Viva. Biller’s film is to the films of Radley Metzger and Russ Meyer what Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven was to Douglas Sirk, only perhaps a little bit cannier and a lot less dryly academic about its postmodern tweaks; if Haynes looked back at the 1950s by making his own Rock Hudson update a blue-blooded queer, Viva revisits the golden age of stag filmmaking by putting its likely audience (bored suburbanites with a 16mm projector in their shag-carpeted basement dens) in the starring roles.

Biller stars as Barbi, a sweet but meringue-brained California housewife to an impossibly blond hunk, both seemingly straight out of the pages of Playboy. Barbi prepares platters of Swedish meatballs, fruit salad, and cheese fondue between indulgent bubble baths. Her husband, Rick (Chad England), while square-jawed, blue-eyed, and perfectly tanned, spends too much time at the office or on month-long business trips (invariably to Aspen or the Indianapolis 500), sending Barbi into fits of twitchy boredom…down there. Her only outlet for her frustrations is her salacious neighbor friend, Sheila (Bridget Brno), and her swinging thespian husband, Mark (Jared Sanford), who put on quite a show about being sexually liberated, but do it from the fenced-in privacy of their backyard pool.

It doesn’t take but one complaint from the otherwise terminally compliant Barbi to get Rick turning around and walking out the door, leaving a crushed Barbi with no other alternative than to sample from the sexual bounty of the ’70s. Thus, she becomes a heroine straight out of De Sade, only Scotchgarded, bouncing from one sexual indiscretion to the next until she winds up the star attraction at an orgy lifted straight out of Metzger’s Camille 2000 (even using identical music cues). While Biller certainly milks the garish interiors and woeful fashions of the day for all the humor they’re worth (lenser C. Thomas Lewis’s Brady Bunch cinematography is every bit the tour de force Edward Lachman’s Oscar-nominated work on Far from Heaven was, and Biller’s own production design is as attentive and overzealous as Vincent Peranio’s work for John Waters), her intentions are far more focused and vicious than your average episode of That ’70s Show.

Poking fun at the 1970s is like shooting sardines in a can, what with the yin and yang of post-revolution hippies just reaching their nudist burn-out point and forever-square suburbanites pretending to expand their horizons by doing what their bachelor magazines tell them to do. Viva’s intentionally flat performances and flatter double entendres (he, at an orgy: “I could eat her alive”; she: “Eat me alive!”) mercilessly satirize the Playboy mindset even as the film revels in the kitschiness of it all. It walks a fine line (and, at just over two hours, for a surprisingly long time), but the film’s kicker—in which Barbi is recruited to play a role in a show paying homage to the 1950s because, as the show’s director says, “people are bored to death with nudity”—confirms Biller’s self-awareness of the way even parody can be used to simultaneously illuminate and evade the social ills of today.

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A hilarious romp that turns topsy-turvy the old Hollywood standards of female sexuality and pleasure, Three Examples of Myself… brings together three fantasies of how women would run things if they were on the throne of power. Remixing fluffy musical numbers with a definite feminist twist, director Biller creates a rebellious coquette for the 90’s–a kind of Sandra Dee meets Madonna–as she rules a harem in the Arabian Nights, rules over a hiveful of submissive drones, and even finds sexual liberation in the disco era. With a scoreful of delightful musical fantasies, the film delivers a magical twist to the notions of visual pleasure. With lyrics like “She is fertile, she is nice–She gives us good advice. She is everything we need!”, you simply can’t go wrong. — New York Asian American Film Festival

Anna Biller wrote, directed, starred, composed the songs, created the sets, and sewed all the wild costumes for this collection of colorful vignettes… Sheer enjoyment, this movie is like a big, pink frosted birthday cake– 99 1/4% pure sugar. –Seattle Asian American Film Festival

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LOS ANGELES TIMES
Anna Biller’s Three Examples of Myself as Queen is an endearing camp travesty musical. Sweet, funny, with marvelous costumes, sets, and even quilts designed and constructed by Biller, a kind of innocent homage to Maria Montez with color and decor worthy of Kenneth Anger. –Kevin Thomas

ARTFORUM, “BEST OF 1994”
Meanwhile across town, the small, embattled literary-arts center Beyond Baroque was screening a short film by newcomer Anna Biller,Three Examples of Myself as Queen. A fairy-tale adaptation of feminist realpolitik, the film’s humor and graceful perplexity may not have caused any shifts in the local faultlines but did crack a glorious smile on this audience member’s face. –Lane Relyea

THE AMAZING WORLD OF CULT MOVIES
Three Examples of Myself as Queen, 1994. In these days when every nostalgic pop-culture reference seems to come with its own implicit quotation marks, it is refreshing to see nostalgia as deliciously unironic as this 26-minute short from indie filmmaker Anna Biller (The Hypnotist). Filled to the brim with lushly saturated Technicolor photography, wonderfully high-camp sets and costumes, and some deliriously silly concepts, Biller’s film is a throwback to the early underground of Kenneth Anger and Jack Smith, worshipping old Hollywood with simultaneous deconstruction and unabashed homage. The first segment, “The Sad Queen,” is reminiscent of such lavish ’50s musicals as The King and I, with Biller as an ennui-struck monarch speaking in French to an Indian raja trying to cheer her up before her female attendants burst into a song that does the trick. “Queen Bee” has Biller lording over gay bees in a tent before moving into a glamorous all-pink hive straight out of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” while “Queen Poinsettia” begins as a late-60s exploitation film and ends as a fairy tale. Biller and a friend attend a mod party which almost turns into a gangbang before her tormentors turn into dogs, a princely hero shows up on a white horse, and Biller is transformed from go-go chick to princess, heading off to an enchanted castle as this wonderfully grin-provoking exercise comes to a close. Biller has points to make, to be sure, and introduces some interesting subtextual examinations of feminism, but never lets her modern sensibility detract from that historical sense of goggle-eyed Hollywood wonder. For those viewers enervated by too many grim, petulantly nihilistic shorts, Three Examples of Myself as Queen is just the ticket to learning to smile at underground cinema again.–Robert Firsching

LA WEEKLY
Biller screens herThree Examples of Myself as Queen, a tour de force in camp that’s destined to become a cult classic. It’s already Beyond Baroque’s most requested film. –Ellen Krout-Hasegawa

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