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Actor Ayanna Dozier

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Let's Make Love and LIsten to Death from Above 2022 ( 4)

Shot on both b&w and color film stock, the 5-minute “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above” re-animates “illicit” trades that took place, emphasizing the “desire and affect that still roam and haunt the Chelsea District.” [Overview Courtesy of Microscope Gallery]

A Picture for Parco 2022

A Picture for Parco, recreates a 1980s commercial made for a Japanese department store chain by Kazumi Kurigami taking on the role previously played by an elegantly dressed Faye Dunaway sitting at a table, set against a black background, slowly and seductively eating a hardboiled egg. Filmed on the one-year anniversary of Dozier's last colposcopy, the piece evokes a range of intense feelings not present in the original. This film is part of the trilogy, "Close, but no Cigar." [Overview Courtesy of Ayanna Dozier]

Softer 2021

Softer examines the demands of "softening" that are requested of Black women's bodies in society---from job prospects to romantic ones---be that in their voice, their manners, and, critically, their hair. The experimental short plays upon the grooming rituals of softening that are terrifyingly rough through a recreation of a permanent wave machine produced perm (popular in the 1930s-1950s). The short mediates on the historical ways in which Black women have tried to answer this demand on softness through respectable appearance and behavior.