A heartbroken mistress has a session with her long-term client, who wishes to change their dynamic of bondage play. In this desire to escalate, he miscalculates his own capacity for punishment, forcing the session between the two of them to dig deeper to uncover the root of his problems with grief, love, and heartbreak. 2024, U.S., Digital, English, 23 mins.
Dozier is joined by filmmaker Zia Anger (director, My First Film) for a discussion on autofiction following the screening of Dozier’s recent film Forgetting You is Like Breathing Water.
Accompanying the screening of Forgetting You is Like Breathing Water is a playlist of works. Films by Maya Deren and Kenneth Anger complement Dozier’s trilogy, Close, but no Cigar, in which the artist recreates scenes from 1970s and 1980s sexploitation films and advertisements, countermining the codes produced by their originals.
Ayanna Dozier, lovertits, 2022, 4 min.
Ayanna Dozier, Picture for Parco, 2022, 3 min.
Ayanna Dozier, an exercise in parting, 2022, 3 min.
Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943, 14 min.
Kenneth Anger, Scorpio Rising, 1963, 28 min.
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Bios
Ayanna Dozier (PhD) is a Brooklyn-based artist-writer. Her art practice centers performance, experimental film, printmaking, and photography, using auto-fiction, surrealist, conceptual, and feminist methods. Her research on film navigates the history of distribution, archaeology, and radical work of Black feminist experimental filmmakers. Her current research and artwork examine how transactional intimacy, such as sex work, redistributes care from the private sector into the public, social politics of relations. She is an assistant professor in communication, with an emphasis in film, at University Massachusetts, Amherst, and is the author of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope (2020).
Zia Anger works in moving images. In 2018 she began touring a performance that traced the last 10 years of her lost and abandoned work, My First Film. The performance has since been adapted into a feature film, which screened at the Walker Cinema in January. She has made music videos for various artists, including Angel Olsen, Mitski, Beach House, Maggie Rogers, and Jenny Hval. Anger’s work has been called “an exceptional commitment to radical transparency.”
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Content Note: Contains mature content and sexual themes.
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