Show and Tell 2018: Julia Dogra-Brazell
Julia Dogra-Brazell
Filmmaker
1. What’s your idea of perfect happiness?:
Silence
2. What drives you to make films?:
Sound
3. Where in the world would you most like to be right now?:
Hawick, of course
4. When inspiration is waning, and you feel creatively sapped, what do you do to stay motivated?:
Look back
5. What films are the most inspiring or influential to you at the moment, and why?:
Paolo Saurrentino’s The Great Beauty, as it’s the most resonant film on ageing I’ve yet seen. Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language for its sheer daring. And pretty much anything by Michael Haneke. Because it is so fearlessly uncompromising.
Your top 3 favourite music tracks?:
Impossible to list just three…. today, listening to Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Clean Bandit’s Rather Be and Rodriguez’s Like Janis. Tomorrow, yesterday, a very different story.
7. What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever done?:
Put on weight
8. What’s your greatest extravagance?:
Living
9. What turns you on – creatively, spiritually or emotionally?:
The magnolia tree that blooms outside my window each Spring
A final word?
Never. A very unreliable word.
