![]() The apartment is decorated with stain-glass lampshades, floral curtains, figurines, voodoo dolls, and candelabras with everlasting flames. The décor was the same-it came from Tarot cards and from the desire to combine Victorian and hippie elements together, to go with personality.” ![]() When explaining the chosen look, Biller said, “A lot of choices were made symbolically or to reinforce character and theme. The film set is a kaleidoscopic vision of blues, purples, and reds. ©2016 Oscilloscopeīiller colour-schemed the apartment based on a fabled tarot deck, the Thoth Tarot. The few pieces of the modern world that exist in the town do not make their way into the house, creating the sense that both the house and Elaine’s apartment are as timeless as the film itself. The precision to detail and elaborate mix of Victorian and 60s gothic designs in the apartment gives the feeling of stepping into a nebulous time period of Elaine’s creation. She spent six months making a pentagram rug by hand and painted much of the kitschy artwork that appears in Elaine’s apartment. In order to ensure that her vision was realized, Biller either handpicked the vintage and custom-made set pieces or made them herself. My films are a mix of reality and fantasy, or a mix of what is happening and what people wish was happening, or what they fear will happen. I like to make films with a kind of dream logic. So, for instance, Elaine’s house is a fantasy witch house, because that’s the house she dreams of.” ©2016 Oscilloscope Biller explained, “I like to make films with a kind of dream logic. ![]() Every detail of the production and costume design was created in the vision of Elaine’s inner state, her aesthetic fantasy of glamour and power. She meticulously crafted this world of Elaine’s, taking seven and a half years to complete her film. Biller truly made the film her own she was the director, writer, producer, editor, composer, costume designer, and production designer. ©2016 OscilloscopeĪlthough The Love Witch was filmed in Northern California (the Victorian mansion is a real-life 1888 historic landmark called the Bair-Stokes house in Arcata, California), the film exists in its own dreamscape of a world. The house is a witchy haven for Elaine where she can brew potions and spells, which she hopes will fulfil her obsessive desire for love. Elaine’s apartment is garishly decorated with occult paraphernalia and psychedelic wallpaper. Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a glamorous young witch with a penchant for love potions and murder, swoops into town and moves into an apartment within the ornate Queen Anne mansion. The house is adorned with gold trimmings, a pointed turret (appropriately called a “witch’s hat turret”), and an embellished round entrance. It stands out as a gothic beauty distinct from the rest of the neighborhood. Set in an ambiguous time period, the only allusion of it not taking place in the 1960s is the odd cellphone, the modern cars parked along the street, and the rare contemporary building among the historic structures of a quaint California coastal town.Īmong the pastel pinks and blues of the town looms the mesmerizing purple mansion. In a technicolor gaze of vibrant blue eyeshadow, a pink tea room, a crimson suitcase, and a purple Victorian mansion, the film is as vintage as it is modern. Anna Biller’s 2016 film The Love Witch transcends time.
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