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 debut film director based in London, The United Kingdom. Her photography, short films and videoworks have shown in hundreds of film festivals, video art screenings, contemporary art galleries and museums internationally. These have included: Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; The Houses of Parliament, London; Photo London, Somerset House, London; Gislaveds Konsthall, Sweden; The State Museum of Gulag, Moscow; West Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands; Façade Video Art Festival, Plovdiv; CICA Museum, South Korea; BBC 100 Women, London; Edinburgh International Festival; Ilmin Museum, Seoul; Sobering Gallery, Paris; Films On Art, Portugal; National Press Gallery Seoul, Korea; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK and The National Art Gallery Wozownia, Torun, Poland.
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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