Endz of the World
Artist film began with the ghosts of the Black Country’s industrial past—archival paintings, historical photographs, and poignant local stories. The process was one of extraordinary discovery. Feeding these fragments of history into generative tools, I watched in awe as dormant landscapes and forgotten figures stirred and came to life, breathing in a new digital world. This act of reanimation became the heart of the film. It allowed me to weave a narrative using local documentary archives and digitally creating scenes that doesn’t just look back at the Industrial Revolution’s legacy of extraction and control, but asks a crucial question for our time: as we stand at the dawn of a new technological era, are we witnessing history repeat itself? This film is my meditation on where this powerful new tech might be taking us all.
The film was commissioned by ACE, Freedlands Foundation and UAL and has shown at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Chelsea School of Art.
Green Lions
The story of the astonishing achievements of the Cameroon national football team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. GREEN LIONS captures the pivotal moments of that memorable summer and charts the stories of those players since. Wrote, directed and executive produced this feature, which screened in over 120 territories world wide.
The film has been commissioned by DAZN and broadcast on BBC4
Indi
An artist film based on a novella I penned in 2017 inspired by the story of the first great hope of a professional British Asian footballer. Set in the mid ’90’s Indi charts the world of emigre mother, Sheeru, and her British born son Indi, who dreams of playing professional football.
Commissioned by FLAMIN Productions through Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network and New Art Exchange. With funding from Arts Council, England.
Sikhs Of Smethwick
Broadcast on BBC4. A single film about migration, marriage and assimilation among the Punjabi community in Smethwick. My film inspired the series A Very British History.
“Dosanjh argued that Smethwick’s 60s racism has its echo today. I wanted more from him to clinch that point. Instead, we got something lovelier – beguiling footage from the intervening half century chronicling the lives of the Sikhs of Smethwick – Punjabi wrestling tournaments, wedding videos, booze-ups and dancing”. Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian.
Year Zero: Black Country
Cine essay film using found footage, recorded anecdotes, fictional diaries and offcuts from newsreel archive to evoke the 60s in the Black Country, when thousands of illiterate immigrants came to work and build new lives.
“A lovely, tender film that uses archive footage to create a portrait of the lives and struggles of those immigrants from the Indian subcontinent who came to the industrial heartland of England in the 60s and 70s” Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian
Nominee ‘Derek Jarman Artist Film Award ’
Lumbu
“Lumbu”, which means “tall one” in Punjabi, is Ravi’s nickname. Ravi is 14 but wants to be a grown up. At home, he reckons with his father Narinder’s double life in a bid to rescue his mum Harbin. As the secret gets out, Ravi loses control and learns about the tyrannies of the adult world.
The film has been commissioned by BFI and BBC Films
Beauty Queens
In late 2005 the rumored rape of an Afro-Carribean illegal immigrant by a gang of Muslim shop owners led to a night of unprecedented race riots and the murder of young local man.
Documentary
Siberia’s Next Supermodels
Two country shoot in Siberia and China exploring the growing demand for European looking models in China. Critics pick of the week in Guardian and Times and viewed more than 4 million times on YouTube.
Channel 4, Unreported World