Karel Doing Filmes

Saint is a short black and white film without dialogue shot on Super-8, that portrays the martyrdom of St. Sebastian through evocative imagery and...

By using plants, mud and salt in conjunction with alternative photochemistry, images are 'grown' on motion picture film. What at first glance is...

Blades of grass are racing across the screen.

A found footage film is a collage of documentary and training films from the first half of the 20th century. What connects them is the idea of...

In modern warfare massmurder is just another number in the papers. The count-down for the next war already started. A film and an installation made...

Compilation film on the body. The project was initiated by Studio Een. 12 Dutch artists were invited to make a short film whose object is part of the...

'Getijden' consists of 8 parts, a carousel of images and sounds revolving in a mysterious parallel world, and filled with different emotions and...

"In Vivo" is an assemblage of found footage. Doing doesn't provide much in the way of conventional context as to how these varied sources interrelate...

Film portrait of dutch director Karel Doing

A couple of years ago I have discovered new possibilities for the creation of images on film-emulsion by using the internal chemistry of plants. This...

A dreamy document about finding a fragile treasure amongst a hasty crowd, the drinking of water, some wandering between stones, and the vulnerabilty...

Abstract lightplay that slowly reveals it's secrets. The film consists of three layers: animation of streetlights, filmstrip treated with bleach and...

Karel Doing follows the route taken by his uncle Ed Huis in ‘t Veld, who was executed in 1942 by Japanese forces on the Indonesian island of...

Reworked landscape images slide across the screen in a rhythmic pattern, accompanied by minimal violin music by Danish composer Martin Hall.

"Phytography" dives into the rich and varied world of plant chemistry. This collection of organic objets trouvés demonstrates how nature...

In 1974 Thomas Nagel published his famous essay "What is it like to be a bat?" arguing that there is a specific mental state to each organism....

A PERFECT STORM is a landscape film or, more precisely, a landscape imprinted on the film's emulsion. The artist has used seeds, tiny composite...

Dreamy images, often in slow motion, stirred or stirring, filmed along the banks of the Seine. Close-ups of water, blurred outdoor shots, shadows and...

Daily life repeats itself. Small actions, like smoking a cigarette, opening the fridge (...), a wave crashing on the beach.