Anna Biller is known for her lavish use of color, her original brand of narcissistic feminism and her witty imitations of old Hollywood spectacle and genre movies. She has completed several short films and written two stage musicals, and has done her own set and costume design on all of them. She did her undergraduate studies at UCLA in art, and her graduate studies at CalArts in art and film. She worked on an erotic feature film set in the sexy 1970s called Viva (2007).