Ruins and Resilience

AD HOC 63: RUINS AND RESILIENCE: KAREL DOING, IN PERSON

October 10, 8PM, Innis College room 222

AD HOC is proud to present this screening of films by Karel Doing. Karel Doing is an independent artist, filmmaker, and researcher whose practice investigates the relationship between culture and nature by means of analogue and organic process, experiment, and co-creation. His work has been shown worldwide at festivals, in cinemas, on stage, and in galleries. He was a founder member of Studio één, a pioneering DiY film laboratory. He has invented “phytography,” a technique that combines plants and photochemical emulsion.

Whirlwind (1998, colour, 9 min.)

Energy Energy (1999, B&W, 7 min.)

The Mulch Spider’s Dream (2018, colour, 14 min.)

A Perfect Storm (2022, colour, 3 min.)

Babbler, Fairy and Thursh (2022, B&W, 4 min.)

Oxygen (2023, colour, 6 min.)

Agapanthus (2024, B&W, 6 min.)

Liquidator (2010, colour, 8 min.)

Wilderness Series (2016, colour, 14 min.)

TRT: 71 min.

AD HOC aims to rethink what an experience of cinema can be. We seek to reposition historical landmarks and buried treasures within the on-going tradition of experimental and other non- commercial modes of filmmaking, drawing on work from Toronto, throughout Canada, and internationally. Within these parameters, we aspire to diversity in programming, as well as to multimedia and interdisciplinary screening events that bring together varied communities.

AD HOC = Stephen Broomer, Madi Piller, Jim Shedden, Bart Testa.

Thanks to Alberto Zambenedetti, James Leo Cahill, Charlie Keil, Karen Reid, Denise Ing, Eyan Logan, Sean Rogers, Robert Trevisan, Thom Chan, and the audio-visual staff of Innis College.