cineclub

The film club is a monthly gathering where we will present a carefully curated selection of films. Each session will include the screening and vegetarian snacks prepared by a guest artist, inspired by the film being shown.

This session of Cineclub La Escocesa presents a selection of films by Ayanna Dozier that explore desire, work, spirituality, and representation. Working primarily in 16mm and Super 8mm, Dozier constructs intimate and confrontational pieces that question dominant narratives around gender, morality, and bodily autonomy.

Through figures such as the daughter, the lover, the sex worker, and the believer, these works explore how transactional intimacy redefines the dynamics of care, power, and vulnerability in contemporary relationships. Her films, imbued with Black feminist thought, autofiction, and surrealist strategies, create sensory spaces where personal experience and collective histories intertwine.

Wednesday, March 25

20h

Doing it for Daddy by Ayanna Dozier | 2025

A Whore in the House of the Lord by Ayanna Dozier | 2025

Nightwalker by Ayanna Dozier | 2022

Softer by Ayanna Dozier | 2020

Bounded Intimacy by Ayanna Dozier | 2024

It’s Just Business, Baby by Ayanna Dozier | 2023

Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above by Ayanna Dozier | 2022

In this body of work, Dozier confronts inherited moral frameworks—especially those shaped by Christian iconography and patriarchal structures—and proposes a reappropriation of the body and desire through performance and film experimentation.

Session duration: 42 minutes
Session in English with Spanish subtitles

21:30h

Snacks & drinks by Valentina Alvarado Matos

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. While her current research and artwork is dedicated to examining how transactional intimacy (like sex work) redistributes care from the private sector into the public, social politics of relations. She is currently an assistant professor in communication, emphasis in film, at University Massachusetts, Amherst and is the author of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope (2020).

Valentina Alvarado Matos. Visual artist and filmmaker. Her work addresses issues related to memory and territory through a dialogue with the materiality of film, paper, voice, and ceramics. Her practice, akin to collage, weaves together reflections on diasporic identity, memory, and landscape. Her work has been exhibited at La Virreina Centro de la Imagen, California Museum of Photography, The British Ceramics Biennial, Queer Circle London, Artium, LIAF Biennial, Pesaro Film Festival, Viennale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Punto de Vista, XCentric, SFCinematheque, Loop Festival, Cinemateca de Madrid, Filmoteca de Cataluña, Microscope Gallery, Los Angeles Forum, Salzburger Kunstverein, La Capella, FUGA gallery, and Focal Point Gallery, among others.

Activity coordinated by Catarina Botelho, Carlos Vásquez, Marla Jacarilla, Valentina Alvarado Matos and Elena Maravillas. 

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