contribution # 2 | LIQUIDATOR - [2010] - 7’47” | karel doing and michal osowski

the project liquidator started with a research question; where lies the ultimate border of film preservation, and how does it look? _in other words, filmmaker karel doing was looking for a filmprint that was on the brink of complete deterioration. _his friends at the dutch film archive (eye) came up with a newly discovered print of haarlem; a commercial ‘city branding’ film made in 1922 by dutch film pioneer willy mullens. _this particular print was interesting to karel for two reasons: the deterioration of the nitrate had caused stunning visual effects and the original utilitarian nature of the footage was in stark contrast with the drama of this deterioration. _he isolated the sequences where transitions took place between well preserved images and, partly or completely, vanished images. _he reworked this footage zooming in, slowing down and reframing these sequence. _the most dramatic moments he reworked using optical flow and morphing techniques. _with the resulting material he composed a new film with the same duration as the original. _he then asked composer, software developer and distortion specialist michal osowski to make a soundtrack for the film using a direct link between image and sound

 

contribution # 3 | RECAPITULATION - [2016] - 4’54” | short film by karel doing, gareth davis (bass clarinet) and machinefabriek (rutger zuydervelt)

karel doing, gareth davis, machinefabriek, rutger zuydervelt, recapitulation, arnold schalks, crimmp_24, ocw, stage for small scale events, rotterdam

since 2016 karel doing started collaborating with clarinetist gareth davis and the rotterdam musician/sound artist rutger zuydervelt (machinefabriek) on a series of live visual events using elements of ambient, noise, drone and field recordings and archival 8mm footage