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...

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,...

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...

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

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

Blades of grass are racing across the screen.

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

The 'four eyes' are playing with musical toys and the ABC of cinema. The music has references to western traditional music that is usually ignored,...

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...

A girl dancing, repeated movements; Two layers of film superimposed and shifting in a complex rhythm, accompanied by an African drum. The making of...

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...

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...

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

"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...

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

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

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....

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