Karel Doing

Dandelion

35mm
2 minutes
black & white
2018

Zumzeig Cooperative (Barcelona)
Strangloscope (Itajai)
Camlab (Boston)
Strangloscope (Itajaí)
S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico (A Coruña)
Scratch Expanded (Paris)


 

One of my first experiments with phytography. Prepared dandelion leaves were used to create a repetitive but constantly changing pattern on long expired 35mm film. The characteristic 'teeth' of the Dandelion jump left and right jutting sideways from the centre of the screen. Titles were scratched into black leader in the same spirit of doing a lot with nothing. A minimal film about a plant that has been entangled with human culture for a very long time.