Country: USA
Year: 2001
Duration: 27'
Lucy, 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 tries to console her, but is unable to help. When Lucy gets a job singing at the saloon, the Incubus 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. “The reason the incubus is so interesting to me is because of its sexual element. It’s like those old fairy tales like Bluebeard, which were about teaching young girls about the fearfulness of husbands. In the same way, the film is about a young, inexperienced girl’s fear of sex, but also about her curiosity of it. The young girl has desires she can’t understand, along with wonder about sex and her own body. She unconsciously may want to be possessed by a stranger, at the same time feeling revulsion about everything male and sexual.”
Biography
film director
Anna Biller
Anna Biller has directed musical plays such as Princess Butterfly (2001) and The Lady Cat (1995) and has completed a number of short and middle-length films, such as Three Examples of Myself as Queen (1994), Fairy Ballet (1998), The Lady Cat ( 2001), The Hypnotist (2001) and the acclaimed horror-western short A Visit from the Incubus (2001). She is known for her use of film genres, humour, the burlesque and visual excess of her films, and for her colourful stylized sets and costumes, which she creates herself. She has a BA in art from UCLA and an MFA in art and film from CalArts. In 2006 she directed her first feature film, Viva, shown at Torino Film Festival together with a selection of other works from her filmography.
FILMOGRAFIA
Three Examples of Myself as Queen (cm, 1994), Fairy Ballet (cm, 1998), The Lady Cat (cm, 2001), A Visit from the Incubus (cm, 2001), The Hypnotist (mm, 2001), Viva (2006), The Love Witch (2016).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, scenografia, costumi, montaggio, musica, produttore/director, screenplay, set design, costume design, film editor, music, producer Anna Biller
fotografia/director of photography William Roland, Daniel Pfisterer, C. Thomas Lewis, Chris Nils Laine
suono/sound Brian P. Linder
Interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Anna Biller (Lucy McGee), Jared Sanford (l’Incubo/the Incubus), Natalia Schroeder (Madeleine), Gerald J.J. Johnson (il padrone del saloon/saloon manager), Joe Babicki (il barista/bartender),Gary Sample (il brontolone/grumbler), Ed Dollison (ubriaco/drunk), Joel King, James Bohan (i ladruncoli/rustlers), Tom Chaney (lo spaccone/hustler), Christina Canning, Daniella Morre, Marisa Brooke Jones (showgirls), Sabrina Steele, Lisa Nowicki (le ragazze del diavolo/devil’s showgirls)
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Anna Biller Productions
fotografia/director of photography William Roland, Daniel Pfisterer, C. Thomas Lewis, Chris Nils Laine
suono/sound Brian P. Linder
Interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Anna Biller (Lucy McGee), Jared Sanford (l’Incubo/the Incubus), Natalia Schroeder (Madeleine), Gerald J.J. Johnson (il padrone del saloon/saloon manager), Joe Babicki (il barista/bartender),Gary Sample (il brontolone/grumbler), Ed Dollison (ubriaco/drunk), Joel King, James Bohan (i ladruncoli/rustlers), Tom Chaney (lo spaccone/hustler), Christina Canning, Daniella Morre, Marisa Brooke Jones (showgirls), Sabrina Steele, Lisa Nowicki (le ragazze del diavolo/devil’s showgirls)
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Anna Biller Productions
