Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with performance, experimental film, installation, and analog photography. Her art practice foregrounds surrealist, conceptual, and feminist practices. She is the author of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope (2020). Her films have been screened at the selected festivals; Open City Docs (2020), BlackStar (2021), Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (2021), Prismatic Ground (2022) and Aesthetic Film Festival where she was the recipient of Best Experimental in 2020 for her film Softer. She received her PhD in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University (Montréal) and is an assistant professor of communication, with an emphasis in film, at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.