VIVA Dark Horizons

Get ready for a kinky night at AFI FEST, as Anna Biller takes us on a trip back to the swinging ’70s for a delicious tribute/parody to soft-core pornography and sexual liberation.

This fantastic, one-of-a-kind sexploitation film seems at once wholly fresh in its spot-on execution and, at the same time, like some artifact from a randy cinematic past. Biller, a multi-hyphened talent in the extreme, writes, directs, stars, edits, shoots and designs the costumes and sets. The film tells the hilariously off-kilter tale of a suburban housewife in 1 972 who is abandoned by her husband and goes out to find herself in the middle of the sexual revolution. As she seeks love and adventure, she is dragged through the worlds of nudist colonies, hippies, modeling, prostitution, bi-sexuality and bohemia.

A singular work of art with a lot on its mind, VIVA illustrates cinema’s unique ability to blend high and low culture. And there are plenty of lewd laughs along the way. So let down your hair. And leave your underpants at home.