Karel Doing Movies

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...

This personal film is made up of landscape photos from the archive of the director's father, through which he returns to his life while exploring the...

A mosaic of organic forms that tumble on top of each other.

An unfiltered stream of perception: small objects and grand panoramas appear simultaneously. The certainties of near and far, detail and overview,...

Blades of grass are racing across the screen.

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...

"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...

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...

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

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

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 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...

Double screen series of 5 films. All of them constructed as a palindrome; a sequence of elements which appear the same when perceived both forwards...

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

A project making innovative use of existing archive images of Willy Mullens’ silent film Haarlem (1922). The original film shows the city in...

A Patriot of These Woods is a film inspired by the novel The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino. Calvino’s book tells the adventure of a boy...

The origins of the film came from documents shot during the preparations and the executions of several collective performances performed by the...

Film portrait of dutch director Karel Doing

In Maas Observation Doing and Pope demonstrate their fascination in the bizarre landscape of the port of Rotterdam, a stretch of 'neo-nature' with...

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...