Growing Images Screening: The films of Karel Doing
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | 7:30 PM | FREE
Room 4365 (Sound Stage) – SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Please join us for a free screening of short films by the independent artist, filmmaker, and researcher, Karel Doing.
Presented by The Bucket Collective, with support from Unit/Pitt, and the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts.
Biography
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.
Event
Growing Images: Phytography Workshop
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
UNIT/PITT – 2954 West 4th Ave., Vancouver
Suggested donation: $30.00. All funds will go towards the Unit/Pitt and materials.
Maximum number of participants: 15
Join visiting artist Karel Doing, inventor of the phytogram process, for an afternoon of image propagation at Unit/Pitt.
Phytography is a technique that leaves detailed chemical traces of plants directly on photographic emulsion. Hands-on practice with 16mm film film will be accompanied by discussion of the historical lineage of phytograms, experimental image making practice and ecological mindfulness. Participants will gather plants, create their own images and see the results in projection.
All materials are provided.