Photo by Rowan Gould-Bayba

“Her focus is on the articulation of small wonders. Whether taking us on a journey into how the mind works in narrative loops – banal and determined – or ushering us through space, she reveals our vulnerability. Her films are evocative not of message or broadcast but of experience blooming. Studies of silent movement arcing through landscapes known, unknown and remembered. As viewers, our body leaps to forgetting for just a moment that it is not trained. Her dancer lifts us up to our own private abandon through a layering of family gardens narrated by a domestic longing in a room full of poetry. The physicality we experience in a chase scene, or horror vignette, we experience full force from the particulates of her character’s internal world. Dot’s stark presence as a performer, poet, dramatist and filmmaker captures still truths that ripple in images of daily seeing. How she notices and captures as a cinematographer is as interesting as the stories she tells. Our raw selves revealed – we feel the stones on our feet. We can bask or rebel in the politics of the alienated-self celebrated in these conflicted desires. And critically, as a young woman, she articulates and distils an austere sensuality that belies the fit/flat cuts of social media. Quite the opposite - in Dot’s work, we travel through her images broken presences hoping to heal…The quality of her listening acute. She understands the power of pausing and considering the art of critique with colleagues. She has the gift of lifting other voices, supporting their work beyond platitudes and creating shared venues for expression.”

- Justine Lewis, Visible Leadership