Urschrift (2013)

Dogra-Brazell has produced photographic series and audio works as well as short experimental films. She 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.

Some of Dogra-Brazell's earlier films can be accessed in the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection currently held at Central St.Martin’s College of Art and Design. Plot was released on dvd by Filmarmalade in 2009. 'The Garden(2007) is included on the touring programme One Minute Vol.8 2014

A distinguishing feature of the work irrespective of medium, is its relation to haiku, the detached and ambiguous detail. 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). Two later films which also employ disruptive strategies are Girl in a Taxicab (2007) and Before I left (2010). In each, words and phrases were randomly chosen from specific unnamed texts and later rearranged to form a voiceover.

Dogra-Brazell is currently working on a series of short films that are self-contained, flexible units that, over time and as they proliferate, can be brought together in different configurations. In terms of screening, this means that ‘new’ films can be built from units by an invited 'guest'. The parameters are kept wide. Units can be shown individually, built into a single structure or can take the form of expanded cinema with multiple screens.

Girl in a Taxicab (2007)