Violetta is one of London’s wealthy elite, rich and beautiful but pathologically dissatisfied with life. When her mind starts to destroy her body, she finds help in Dr. Gunter Berezovsky, a brilliant blood specialist and cultured psychopath who treats the city’s super-rich. As they become closer, a disturbing game plays out between them; one that will show her the truth about herself, and the society she inhabits. What she learns will change her forever.
DIRECTOR: Monika K. Adler
GENRE: Drama, Psychological Horror, Thriller
COUNTRY: UK
SCREENPLAY: Monika K. Adler, Aeon Rose
IMDB: Sick Bacchus
FILMMAKERS
MONIKA K. ADLER
DIRECTOR/WRITER
Monika K. Adler, is an acclaimed photographer and filmmaker who has exhibited her work worldwide.
With over 25 years of professional experience in London, Paris, and New York, Monika has worked on many high-profile projects, including First Open for Christie’s auction house, Rankin’s 2020 for Sky Arts TV, and 209 Women for the UK Parliament.
Between 2013 and 2023, Monika was represented by Art & Commerce and Vogue Italia and over the years has judged a range of high-profile international photography competitions, including the Golden Shot Awards and Monovisions.
In 2018, she was nominated for the Royal Photographic Society’s Hundred Heroines Award for her outstanding contribution as a female photographer.
Monika is currently working on two feature films, Sick Bacchus and One Hour After Violent Death.
SCRIPT & DIALOGUESAEON ROSEMONIKA K. ADLER
PRODUCTION COMPANYONTOLOGY FILMS
ARTICLES
The Fictional: London as Filmset, Monika K. Adler, 19 April 2024
“In William Gibson’s novel, The Peripheral, parts of a depopulated future London transform into anachronistic recreations of the past for the benefit of tourists. Around them, despite a catastrophic collapse of society, the structures of embedded establishment persist; white stone edifices impervious to the re-ordering of reality. In our present, the ethical framework of the post-war order has become so degraded we experience multiple truths; weighted only by the effectiveness of competing influence operations. The series presents locations from the novel and its screen adaption, which exist now as the nexus of constitutional and monarchial power.” Private Photo Magazine, 19 April 2024.
Sick Bacchus: Luxury and the death-drive, Monika K. Adler, 19 August 2023
“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” – Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
Interview: Monika K. Alder, Tydzień Polski, London
Piotr Gulbicki, Tydzień Polski, UK Edition, 11 October 2019
Interview: Films and Sick Bacchus
Interview with Director Monika K. Adler, Authority Magazine, July 2019
Interview: ‘Wszystko czai sie w oczach’
Piotr Gulbicki, Tydzien Polski, March 2019
Harper’s BAZAAR: Inside 209 Women
Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Harper’s BAZAAR, Nov 28 2018
VOGUE Italia: PhotoVogue
Profile: Monika K. Alder, 2013 – 2018
The Ambivalent Body: On The Short Films of Monika K. Adler
Film Critic Robert Smart, 2013
The Female Artist as Naked Signifier
Film Critic Robert Smart, 2014
Selected Works
Monika K. Alder (2003 – 2013), 2013
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