Ayanna Dozier

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]

Ayanna Dozier assumes the character of a young woman who enters a love motel to re-train her emotions about love and sex in lovertits, a 4-minute film inspired in part by Charles Matton’s French erotica movie Spermula. In this version, the woman, who is seen bathing in a bikini in a heart-shaped bath, unsuccessfully attempts to embrace “superficial happiness, femininity and passiveness.” This film is part of the trilogy, "Close, but no Cigar." [Overview Courtesy of Ayanna Dozier]

an exercise in parting is a poetic examination of a go-go dancer walking home from work late at night attempts to resurrect her lost childhood on kiddie rides in front of a small store. Close-up images of the artist’s face collapse into abstraction as the pony ride breaks down. This film is part of the trilogy "Close, but no Cigar." [Overview Courtesy of Ayanna Dozier]

Between pandemics, people’s revolts and male institutions, this period film cheekily combines fantastic psychedelia and handmade sets. Inspired by the life story of Julian of Norwich, a 14th-century mystic and the first woman to write a book in English.