Name | Julia Dogra-Brazell

Country | England

DOB | 1963.06.19

Email | julia.dogra_brazell@btinternet.com

Web | www.re-title.com/artists/julia-dograbrazell.asp

Curriculum Vitae | Click Here

Statement | Julia Dogra-Brazell

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)

Dogra-Brazell has produced photographic and sound works as well as short films and videos. A distinguishing feature of the work irrespective of medium, is its relation to haiku, the detached and ambiguous detail.

Plot, 4'38min, 2006
Plot is the artist's most fully sustained and elaborate contribution to the moving image so far. Shot on video and digitalised super8, the film took six years to make. Using the languages of her childhood (French) and adulthood (English) as she travelled back and forth to Switzerland where her mother lay seriously ill, the camera was used as a diary recording little snatches of daily life, moments insignificant in themselves and certainly inadequate to the task of telling the stories of those years or what came before. As such, Plot 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' Ed 1 Vol 4)

Dogra-Brazell is currently working on a short digitalised film on the life, work and suicide of the poet Veronica Forrest-Thomson.