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.
Bounded Intimacy
Part of the trilogy of Super 8mm shorts titled It’s Just Business, Baby, Bounded Intimacy examines the histories of various forms of body labor across the Chelsea and Tribeca districts renowned as sites for sex work, sex clubs, and illicit sexual activity. It evokes the seduction and desire of a nameless woman and the camera, an encounter whose autheticity remains ambivalent.
Forever Your Girl
Inspired by soft-porn aesthetics, but defying its anticipated imagery, Forever Your Girl acts out the loss of childhood innocence and desire through the adventures of a hypersexualized subject attempting to ride a carousel. The film disorients the viewer with slow repetitive actions shot on crackling Super 8mm and coupled with distressed found sound and synths produced by artist and noise musician C. Spencer Yeh.
Softer
Softer examines the demands of “softening” that are requested of Black women’s bodies in society – their voice, their manners, and, critically, their hair – and ways in which they have tried to answer this demand through respectable appearance and behavior. Dozier’s experimental short plays on grooming rituals of softening, recreating a terrifyingly rough permanent perm machine popular in the 1930s-50s.
Maman Brigitte
A ritualised cine-festation, stitching together the intimacy of Maman Brigitte’s private Hoodoo manifestation session – a practice that uses natural and supernatural elements to help people manifest their desires and transform their lives through the aurality of the body. Spitting, running, vomiting – Interior, corporeal practices and spaces are juxtaposed against sweeping landscapes to draw out both film and ritual’s capacity to manifest.
Nightwalker
Nightwalker codes disproportionately target Black femmes or women who “make a display” by wearing clothing that can be deemed risqué by an arresting officer. Dozier’s film of the same name, an extension of a Polaroid and audio project entitled Solicitation of Crimes Against Nature (2021), draws attention to how the surveillance eye overlaps with the gaze of the would-be predator.
It’s Just Business Baby
The first of Dozier’s body labour trilogy captures an encounter between a client and a working girl where the lines of care are blurred following a session. The encounter is then repeated with the same actors switching parts, troubling the power dynamics of a transactional relationship.
Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
Foregrounding the act of cruising and public sex, the film is intentionally devoid of a soundtrack. Audiences are encouraged to follow the image free of associative sounds – and to focus on the complex politics of sex.
