LED BY LAUGHTER, CURIOSITY AND A LOVE FOR MEANING
SENIOR LINE PRODUCER: CONSCIOUS MINDS STUDIOS
ARTIST RESIDENT: CHATEAU D'ORQUEVAUX ARTISTS & WRITERS RESIDENCY - JANUARY 2026
GRADUATE FROM: SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, CINEMA PROGRAM
INSPIRED BY: MY TWO WILD KIDS, DEEP FRIENDSHIPS, MUSIC, TRAVEL, NATURAL WINE, THIS ARTICLE
PRODUCING PORTFOLIO: CLICK HERE
ARTIST STATEMENT: I AM LOS ANGELES BASED SENIOR PRODUCER, EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR AND SPATIAL STORYTELLER WHOSE WORK EXPLORES MEMORY, IDENTITY AND THE EMOTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF BECOMING. I CREATE NARRATIVE EXPERIENCES THAT MOVE BETWEEN POETRY & CINEMA AND STRUCTURE & SURRENDER. I CENTER ON THE INTERIOR LIVES OF WOMEN, ESPECIALLY MYSELF, TRACING MOMENTS OF RUPTURE, RECKONING AND RENEWAL.
Completed. USA. 6 minutes. Written, Directed and Produced by Brooke Dooley. Edited by Marisa DeMarini. Shot by John Ruiz.
un deux trois is a non-linear short poetry film told in three chapters, each its own cinematic poem, exploring heartbreak, identity, and the quiet revolution of letting go. Emerging from the ache of a failed marriage and the deeper unraveling of self that followed, the film unfolds as a progression through past, present, and future.
In each chapter, a solitary female figure carries the narrative through her body; moving in unexpected ways, inhabiting silence, and gazing directly into the lens. She is both subject and storyteller, confronting what was, what is, and what may come.
At its core, this film is a meditation on feminine reclamation: honoring the beauty in breaking, the strength in softness, and the liberation that lives on the other side of surrender.
un deux trois is a non-linear short poetry film told in three chapters, each its own cinematic poem, exploring heartbreak, identity, and the quiet revolution of letting go. Emerging from the ache of a failed marriage and the deeper unraveling of self that followed, the film unfolds as a progression through past, present, and future.
In each chapter, a solitary female figure carries the narrative through her body; moving in unexpected ways, inhabiting silence, and gazing directly into the lens. She is both subject and storyteller, confronting what was, what is, and what may come.
At its core, this film is a meditation on feminine reclamation: honoring the beauty in breaking, the strength in softness, and the liberation that lives on the other side of surrender.
Completed. USA. 6 minutes. Written, Directed and Produced by Brooke Dooley. Edited by Marisa DeMarini. Shot by John Ruiz.
In Development. USA. Written, Directed and Produced by Brooke Dooley. Edited by Marisa DeMarini. Shot by Rob Webster.
THE BOY WITH THE BROKEN BODY is a visual folktale about the men we have loved. The broken body refers not just to physicality, but to vulnerability, ego, failure, desire, absence, and the ruptures in intimacy.
I’m inspired by my own experiences, and recognized a connection between the structure of folktales and real-life love stories. The lessons that I, and so many other women, learn through dating, marriage, breakups, situationships, is profound and should be passed to generations.
This film is a meditation on how women experience men: how their presence shapes our sense of self, how their absence haunts, how their tenderness and violence intertwine, and how time warps our memory of them.
THE BOY WITH THE BROKEN BODY is a visual folktale about the men we have loved. The broken body refers not just to physicality, but to vulnerability, ego, failure, desire, absence, and the ruptures in intimacy.
I’m inspired by my own experiences, and recognized a connection between the structure of folktales and real-life love stories. The lessons that I, and so many other women, learn through dating, marriage, breakups, situationships, is profound and should be passed to generations.
This film is a meditation on how women experience men: how their presence shapes our sense of self, how their absence haunts, how their tenderness and violence intertwine, and how time warps our memory of them.
In Development. USA. Written, Directed and Produced by Brooke Dooley. Edited by Marisa DeMarini. Shot by Rob Webster.