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2015 · 9m · Canada
Directed by Katherine Monk
Genres: biography, documentary
Tones: contemplative, provocative, surreal
Vancouver DJ Rhiannon Rozier navigates a male-dominated electronic dance scene where top earners are all men, confronting a career ceiling and making the controversial choice to pose for Playboy to advance.
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A documentary that refuses the easy moral high ground—Rozier's Playboy gambit isn't framed as tragedy or triumph, just a calculated move in a rigged system, and Monk lets that ambiguity breathe instead of sermonizing. This is the kind of film that makes you uncomfortable because it trusts you to hold two contradictions at once.
Monk's structural clarity—moving between Rozier's intimate interviews and the pulsing anonymity of the DJ booth—positions this within a lineage of feminist documentary inquiry that dates back decades, yet the formal restraint here (no heavy-handed soundtrack, no victim framing) marks a maturation in how that tradition interrogates complicity.
The film's turning point is a single editorial choice: a cut from Rozier's reflection on visibility to a stark moment of her physical presence in the booth—and suddenly the whole premise snaps into focus, the gap between how she's seen and how she sees herself becomes the film's actual subject rather than its sidebar.