Films

FEATURE FILMS

SICK BACCHUS

Feature, Psychological Horror, European Art-House Cinema. Director: Monika K. Adler, Writers: Aeon Rose and Monika K. Adler.

Official site: www.sickbacchus.com

Sick Bacchus on IMDb

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.

SHORT FILMS

Film Poster for Patriarchal Sabbath, Directed by Monika K. Adler. An anthropomorphic poodle in a black leather coat sits in a darkened room lit by a single candle. She holds up and Thoth tarot card of the priestess card. Patriarchal Sabbath. A film by Monika K. Adler. Ontology films present Patriarchal Sabbath with Aeon Rose. Written and directed by Monika K. Adler. Logos at top right of image for Auckland Festival of Photography, N Mona - Vacations in the subconscious, Torrance Art Museum, MIVA, Cinemateca Nacional, Uruguay.
PATRIARCHAL SABBATH, 2023

3.00 min | Short | 2023 (UK) |
Director: Monika K. Adler, Writer: Monika K. Adler, Aeon Rose. Actors: Aeon Rose, Monika K. Adler.

A phase-shifted dream, sequenced from revolutionary surrealism’s mitochondrial DNA. Fragments from the psyches of the women surrealists who sought to unleash themselves from the “male-shaped symbolic order,” and through fascism, war, and exile, found their own voices and community. The figure of an anthropomorphic poodle dog, referencing its appearance in the works of Dorothea Tanning and Leonor Fini, acts as both an observer and latent spectre of liberation.

Film Poster for Nostalgia, 2022. Directed by Monika K. Adler. Portrait of Aeon Rose  from behind wearing black coat and white shirt standing in front of a surging river with twisted trees on the opposite bank. Nostalgia. A film by Monika K. Adler. Ontology Films present Nostalgia with Aeon Rose. Written and directed by Monika K. Adler. Logos at top of image in 8 film festival laurels.
NOSTALGIA, 2022

7.00 min | Short 2022 (UK) | Director: Monika K. Adler, Writers: Monika K. Adler, Aeon Rose. Stars: Aeon Rose.

An immigrant from Eastern Europe recalls his life disrupted by war.

Film Poster for the short film Monika K. Adler, Simone de Beauvoir told me, 2016. Portrait of Monika K. Adler pictured from behind with her face  reflected in a circular mirror on the wall. A film by Monika K. Adler. Simone de Beauvoir told me. Logo of BBC 100 women with Filia. An Ontology films release, with Aeon Rose.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR TOLD ME…, 2016

1.24 min | Short | 26 November 2016 (UK) |
Director: Monika K. Adler, Writer: Monika K. Adler, Aeon Rose, Stars: Aeon Rose, Monika K. Adler.

Simone de Beauvoir told us that for woman there is no other way out than to work for her liberation.

In her video-art work “Simone de Beauvoir told me…” artist and filmmaker Monika K. Adler employs the art historical tradition of the ‘portrait-miniature’ to communicate and re-contextualise de Beauvoir’s iconic words through a cyclical mirror performance with an unexpected conclusion.

Monika K. Adler, On Being an Angel, 2014, film poster. Image of Alexandra Unger's naked back on a black background. On Being an Angel. A film by Monika K. Adler. Ontology Films Presents On Being An Angel Directed By Monika K. Adler Starring Alexandra Unger Produced By Aeon Rose  
Cinematography By Monika K. Adler Film Editing By Monika K. Adler Music By Richard Crow.
ON BEING AN ANGEL, 2014

6min | Short, Biography, Drama | 2 August 2014 (UK) | Director: Monika K. Adler, Writer: Monika K. Adler, Star: Alexandra Unger.

A metaphorical meditation on the suicide of the American artist Francesca Woodman. January 19, 1981, Francesca Woodman committed suicide by jumping out a loft window in New York. She invites us to see her suicide, like she used to invite us to see her art. Poised between two worlds she presents an image of the liberated psyche in flight.

Film poster for Involuntary Memory, 2014 directed by Monika K. Adler. Duotone portrait of Aeon Rose lying in a flowing river with a red-orange cross superimposed over it. Ontology Films Presents Mémoire Involuntaire Written And Directed By Monika K. Adler Starring Aeon Rose.
INVOLUNTARY MEMORY, 2014

4min | Short | 30 April 2014 (Russia) | Director: Monika K. Adler, Writer: Monika K. Adler, Aeon Rose, Star: Aeon Rose.

The descendant of a Gulag internee undergoes repressed trauma borne from a history of genocide across generations. He attempts to exorcise the still present collective memory through a disturbing re-enactment.

Film Poster for Monika K. Adler, Mutability, 2013, Aeon Rose. Portrait of Aeon Rose in a black coat and white shirt in front of a blue sky and a view of Greenwich. London. Mutability. A film by Monika K. Adler. Ontology Films Presents Mutability Directed By Monika K. Adler Written By Aeon Rose Starring Aeon Rose.
MUTABILITY, 2013

5min | Short, Drama, Mystery | 2 August 2013 (UK) | Director: Monika K. Adler, Writer: Aeon Rose,
Stars: Monika K. Adler, Aeon Rose.

Psychiatrist Dr Karl Adler is troubled by the memory of an illegally performed autopsy he carried out on a former patient ‘Monika’

Film Poster for Monika K. Adler, The Beauty of the Shadow, 2013. Portrait of Monika K. Adler in a red dress smoking a cigarette. The Beauty of the Shadow. A film by Monika K. Adler. Ontology Films Presents The Beauty Of The Shadow Directed By Monika K. Adler Written By Monika K. Adler Starring Monika K. Adler, Sofia-Karla Axelsson · Olivier James · Barbara Sierant · Natalia Ziolkowska Produced By Monika K. Adler · Slawomir Pietrzak, Akabar Cinematography By Monika K. Adler · Robert Neumann Film Editing By Krzysztof Lewandowski Music By Magnus Aronson.
Monika K. Adler, The Beauty of the Shadow, 2013, film poster, Aeon Rose
THE BEAUTY OF THE SHADOW, 2013

13min | Short, Drama, Mystery | 5 August 2013 (UK) | Director: Monika K. Adler, Writer: Monika K. Adler, Stars: Monika K. Adler, Sofia-Karla Axelsson, Olivier James,

A scandalous love affair between a catholic priest, a young man and his girlfriend Monika. A study of our darkest desires and instincts.

Film Poster for Monika K. Adler, Purification, 2013. 
Purification, a Film by Monika K. Adler. Edinburgh International Festival, Gislaveds Konsthall, Exploding Cinema. Aeon Rose.
PURIFICATION, 2013

5min | Short, Drama, Mystery | 2 August 2013 (UK) | Director: Monika K. Adler, Writer: Monika K. Adler, Stars: David Lucas

Seville, December 2008. Cardinale Alessandro Zacchia II decides to purify a young Polish nun to free her from her sinful past.

Monika K. Adler, Portrait of the artist, 2013, film poster, Aeon Rose
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, 2013

10min | Documentary, Short, Biography | 22 May 2013 (Netherlands) | Director: Monika K. Adler,
Writer: Monika K. Adler.

British contemporary artist Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz recounts a narrative about the northern renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch.

Film Poster for Monika K. Adler, Come Back To The Trees, 2013. Image of an upraised girls face with red lipstick and a black stripe over her eyes eating a brain. Come Back To The Trees. A film by Monika K. Adler. ONTOLOGY FILMS Presents COMEBACK TO THE TREES Written and directed by MONIKA K. ADLER Starring  
MILENA WALCZAK Produced by MONIKA K. ADLER Cinematography by HUBERT PETRYKOWSKI Film Editing
by MONIKA K. ADLER and HUBERT PETRYKOWSKI Music by KEVIN MCLEOD Title Design by AEON ROSE
COME BACK TO THE TREES, 2013

5min | Short, Adventure, Crime | 25 April 2013 (UK) | Director: Monika K. Adler, Writer: Monika K. Adler, Stars: Monika K. Adler, Milena Walczak.

She-wolf, a post-matriarchal trickster figure, and twelve young women, her female shamans, are waiting for the messenger with their holy communion, which comes from the body of a murdered man.

Film Poster for Chernobyl of Love, 2012, by Monika K. Adler. Image of Monika K. Adler walking down a road in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in a Blue dress.
A film by Monika K. Adler. Chernobyl of Love. Ontology Films Presents Chernobyl Of Love Written And Directed By Monika K. Adler Starring Monika K. Adler. Produced By Monika K. Adler And Marta Potulska Cinematography By Marta Potulska Film Editing By Monika K. Adler. Film Poster design: Aeon Rose.
CHERNOBYL OF LOVE, 2012

13min | Short, Drama, Horror | 31 July 2012 (UK) | Director: Monika K. Adler, Writer: Monika K. Adler, Stars: Monika K. Adler, Ivan.

In a hotel in Kyiv a young women after murdering a man, is consuming his brain. Her act of cannibalism evokes traumatic memories which take us to the Red Forest near the abandoned town of Chernobyl in the Ukraine. It relates through harsh, visceral yet at once luxuriant imagery a depiction of humanity’s deepest, darkest, and basest of instincts framed within the context of love story. It is a study of the psychopathology of young women whose traumatic past leads her to commit a crime. As with the horrific aftermath and social impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster the film is an account, and meditation upon emotional barbarism and the destruction of human relationships.

Film Poster for The Misery Of My Soul, 2012, Directed by Monika K. Adler. Image of a naked girl lying on a foresters floor with an orange bag on her head. Ontology Films Presents The Misery Of My Soul Written And Directed By Monika K. Adler Produced By Monika K. Adler 
And Marta Potulska Cinematography By Marta Potulska Film Editing By Monika K. Adler. Poster design by Aeon Rose.
THE MISERY OF MY SOUL, 2012

2.58 min | 14 February 2013 (Poland-Ukraine) | Director: Monika K. Adler, Writer: Monika K. Adler, Star: Sasha.

A work in memory of Oksana Makar (rape and murder victim in the Ukraine). Performance (Sasha). Premiered at: Bodies Of Silence #3 When Words Are Made Flesh, curated by Cuntemporary for One Billion Rising, London Arts Festival.