Dark Matter

Karel Doing / Netherlands, United Kingdom / 2014 / World Premiere / 19 min.

synopsis

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, leaves and seaweed. By reacting with the film emulsion, each foreign element creates a new and different image quality, while the noise on the soundtrack underscores the fragility of incomplete memories.

DETAIL:
The only memory that Karel’s father told him about his own childhood was how he ate tulip bulbs during the period known as the Dutch Famine.

biography

Karel Doing (1965), originally from Australia, lives and works in Great Britain. Under the auspices of his production company Doing Film, he experiments with film and video and creates cross-media and performance events in the spirit of expanded cinema. Thematically, he is often attracted to multicultural dialogue, the relationship between the film image and music, and investigating the city as an organism. His film Liquidator (2011) was presented at the Jihlava IDFF.

more about film

director:	Karel Doing
producer:	Karel Doing
script:	Karel Doing
photography:	Karel Doing
editing:	Karel Doing
music:	Florian Magnus Maier, Friso van Wijck
sound:	Charly van Rest, Nico Bunnik