from 'Horse' 2004 (digitalised hi8)

Dogra-Brazell has produced photographic series and audio works as well as short experimental films. Her photographic series include 'Landscape For An Imaginary Invalid' (1998), 'The Impossibility Of Storytelling'(1999) and 'It's Easy For Someone Of My Age To Become Nostalgic'(2001). Two commissioned audio works are 'We' (for the Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv in 2001) and 'Voiceover' (for 'High Art' at the Stoke Newington Festival in 2001.)

A distinguishing feature of the work irrespective of medium, is its relation to haiku, the detached and ambiguous detail.

The Garden

FILMOGRAPHY

2001-6 Plot 4'38" Super8, DV
2004 Horse 1'17" Hi8 (Exquisite Corpse, when
screened as part of a twin screen projection in
collaboration with Ruth Novaczek)
2007 The Garden 1' Super8
2007 Girl in a Taxi Cab 3' 13" Super8
2008 The Sign 5' Super8 (in progress)
2010 Before I Left 5' Super 8

Dogra-Brazell was a 2003 recipient of a Jerwood Commission for the Wapping Project. Her photographs and films have been exhibited at cinemas, festivals and galleries internationally.

In all Dogra-Brazell's work, 'the metaphorical places she depicts are not susceptible to any straightforward narrative interpretation. At once imprecise and over-determined, they allude instead to an elusive past irreducible to a single event.' (Jason Oddy - Next Level 'The Impossibility of Storytelling' Ed 1 Vol 2) A sustained example of this is the film, Plot (2006). The film takes the form of a 'film fragment' that eschews any straightforward narrative intention, causation or chronological structure. It relies instead on the material texture of the work to promote 'the possibility of the emergence of memory through a visual and auditory sensation of speed and change' (Susan Trangmar- Next Level 'Frame of Mind' Ed1 Vol 4) Plot has been released on dvd by Filmarmalade.

Dogra-Brazell's film, Before I Left (2010), is formed of an intricate soundscape. Fleeting images emerge quite literally from darkness, stimulating the imagination at one remove from any originary meaning.