Josephine Decker is an American actress filmmaker and performance artist As of 2020 she has directed four feature films the experimental psychological thriller Butter on the Latch 2013 the experimental erotic thriller Thou Wast Mild and Lovely 2014 the experimental drama Madelines Madeline 2018 and the semibiographical thriller Shirley 2020 She also codirected the documentary Bi the Way 2008 with Brittany Blockman