Karel Doing

Agapanthus (2024)

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

Babbler, Fairy and Thrush (2023)

An unfiltered stream of perception: small objects and grand panoramas appear simultaneously. The certainties of near and far, detail and overview, inside and outside are deliberately thrown into confusion. ...

Oxygen (2023)

Blades of grass are racing across the screen. ...

A Perfect Storm (2022)

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 flowers and other small elements of cultivated plants that grow in his garden and wild plant species gathered fr ...

Phytography (2020)

"Phytography" dives into the rich and varied world of plant chemistry. This collection of organic objets trouvés demonstrates how nature generates multiple creative solutions, each one structured intricately. Through the application of a simple chemical p ...

The Mulch Spider’s Dream (2018)

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. Besides his critique toward the materialist theory of mind, the paper also explores the differences between human ...

Dark Matter (2014)

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 material possibilities for creating "landscapes": the film itself is exposed to the effects of yeast, salt ...

Palindrome Series (2013)

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 and backwards. The films are all made with ostensibly useless materials; paper cut-outs, artificial hair, di ...

Liquidator (2010)

A project making innovative use of existing archive images of Willy Mullens' silent film Haarlem (1922). The original film shows the city in straightforward shots and camera movements. Due to deterioration these images changed in a dramatic way. In the ada ...

Getijden (2008)

'Getijden' consists of 8 parts, a carousel of images and sounds revolving in a mysterious parallel world, and filled with different emotions and states-of-mind; longing, passion, liberation, drive, dedication, realisation, transformation and reflection. Th ...

Jinx (2005)

Rêve Rive (2003)

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 silhouettes of people. A phenomenological portrait of the city, in a joint project with Andrea Emonds, who ...

Energy Energy (1999)

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 progress and technological development and exploitation of the natural and human resources. The film is congenial ...

Whirlwind (1998)

The origins of the film came from documents shot during the preparations and the executions of several collective performances performed by the British group Loophole and the Dutch artist Karel Doing, Using frame by frame, long exposures and optical effect ...

Maas Observation (1997)

In Maas Observation Doing and Pope demonstrate their fascination in the bizarre landscape of the port of Rotterdam, a stretch of 'neo-nature' with little place for humans, where huge machines seem to move around according to a logic of their own. The film ...

Saint (1997)

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 tone rather than concrete story detail. ...

Meni (1994)

A girl dancing, repeated movements; Two layers of film superimposed and shifting in a complex rhythm, accompanied by an African drum. The making of MENI consisted of an obsessive unraveling of a series of dance movements. The movements were cut into very s ...

Lichtjaren (1993)

Abstract lightplay that slowly reveals it's secrets. The film consists of three layers: animation of streetlights, filmstrip treated with bleach and a performance shot with long shutter speeds. The electronic music by Joost Rekveld is based on radio-signal ...

Nature Trail (1993)

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

Vitaal Filmen (1992)

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 body. ...

Ultimatum (1991)

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 as protest against the first gulf-war. ...

Portrait of Karel Doing (1994)

Film portrait of dutch director Karel Doing ...