A Whore in the House of the Lord
Inspired by the silent films of the 1920s, the film infuses gothic architecture and design with the rituals of rabid Christian fanaticism popularised in the American South.
Programmer’s Note
The 16mm color film navigates the bind women encounter in Christian fundamentalist churches, being both the representative body of the church and the conduit in which Satan’s temptation can creep in and corrupt the saints.
Director Biography
Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based artist-writer working across film (both motion picture and still), performance, and installation. She recently completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University.
Her films have screened at film festivals across the United States and the United Kingdom which includes; Prismatic Ground (2022), Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (2021), Open City Docs (2020), and Aesthetica Film Festival where she was the recipient of Best Experimental in 2020 for her film Softer. Her work has been exhibited at Microscope Gallery, The Shed, Westbeth Gallery, Evening Hours, Anthology Film Archives, and the Block Museum amongst other places. She is the author of The Velvet Rope as part of the 33 1/3 music series for Bloomsbury Academic Press. She was a 2018-2019 Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Studies Program, a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 2017-2022, a 2022 Winter Workspace Resident at Wave Hill, and a filmmaker in residence at MONO NO AWARE from 2019-2020. She is currently working on a manuscript on the life and art of abstract film and visual artist, Camille Billops.
Director Filmography
Nightwalker (2024), Bounded Intimacy (2024), It’s Just Business, Baby (2023), lovertits (2022), Let’s Make Love and LIsten to Death from Above (2022), an exercise in parting (2022), A Picture for Parco (2022), Maman Brigitte (2022), Forever Your Girl (2022), Vincent Gallo’s Sperm (2022), Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island (2021), Softer (2021), Consumption (2018)