The Hipnotist
A camp homage to Hollywood melodramas of the 1930s. After the death of their ghastly rich father, quarreling siblings are forced to live together under one roof in order to gain their inheritance. It is all worth it, however, since Mr. Cooke left behind a staggering fortune. When it comes to family, as we all know, things are not always as rosy as they may seem, and in this case, the spiteful children do nothing except come up with perfidious ways to poison their lives. The oldest of the three, Charles, employs Dr. Schadenfreude-an odd German who loves both evil and money-to help him get rid of his siblings. What he could not predict, however, was that, in Dr. Schadenfreude's dark mind, there would be lurking a perfidious plot to use hypnosis, crime, and perversion in order to achieve his own evil purposes.
Anna Biller
She is a visual artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. In her films, she deconstructs the models of femininity developed by genre cinema in Hollywood and Europe, while also playing with the Italian giallo or soft porn from the 1960. She designs her own sets and buys the vintage costumes for her retro-stylized movies. Viva and The Love Witch are her only two full-length feature films.
Selected filmography
1994 Trzy wersje mnie jako królowej / Three Examples of Myself as Queen (short)
2001 A Visit From the Incubus (short)
2001 Hipnotyzer / The Hypnotist (short)
2007 Viva
2016 Czarownica miłości / The Love Witch