One look at Kokomo City and you’d think it’s an ode to film noir. The black and white poster
shows Dominique Silver, a transgender sex worker from New York City, lying on a bed with
dim light peering through the shutters as smoke rises nonchalantly from her cigarette,
billowing toward the film’s title in yellow neon lettering. It’s a striking aesthetic and director D. Smith uses it throughout the documentary, presenting her subjects — Dominique, Liyah,
Daniella, Koko — in inky grayscale.
Kokomo City’s noirish qualities run deeper than its stylish presentation, though. It is a
documentary about urban life in which sex and violence exist in dangerously close proximity. Liyah, an Atlanta sex worker, distils this reality with an outrageous anecdote in Kokomo’s opening, which involves a client, a gun, a fight, and a professional rekindling before cutting to a montage with ‘Street Life’ by...
shows Dominique Silver, a transgender sex worker from New York City, lying on a bed with
dim light peering through the shutters as smoke rises nonchalantly from her cigarette,
billowing toward the film’s title in yellow neon lettering. It’s a striking aesthetic and director D. Smith uses it throughout the documentary, presenting her subjects — Dominique, Liyah,
Daniella, Koko — in inky grayscale.
Kokomo City’s noirish qualities run deeper than its stylish presentation, though. It is a
documentary about urban life in which sex and violence exist in dangerously close proximity. Liyah, an Atlanta sex worker, distils this reality with an outrageous anecdote in Kokomo’s opening, which involves a client, a gun, a fight, and a professional rekindling before cutting to a montage with ‘Street Life’ by...
- 8/11/2023
- by Jack Hawkins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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