Project Detail

Oxygen

Synopsis

Blades of grass create the sensation of a high speed movement. Sparks fly off in all directions.
An experimental animation made with the phytogram technique that was invented by the filmmaker.

Details

Year
2023
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
6 min
Format
16mm
Director
Karel Doing
Producer
Karel Doing
Editor
Karel Doing
Director of Photography
Karel Doing
Sound
Karel Doing

Production Status

Production Company

Karel Doing

68 Glebelands
Oxford
OX3 7EN

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

See also

You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.

A Patriot of These Woods A Patriot of These Woods

Director: Karel Doing

Year: 2025

A film that is inspired by the novel 'The Baron in the Trees' by Italo Calvino. Calvino's book tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere

Elegy for the Lost Elegy for the Lost

Director: William Hong-xiao Wei

Year: 2025

Through the psychoanalytic and introspective voiceover of a young post-pandemic Chinese migrant in Europe, the film interweaves her private memories of intimacy with public narratives of resistance. As her reflections unfold, she and her community navigate secrecy, repression, survival, looming precarity, and displacement, all while confronting the personal cost of existing in a world that demands their silence.

How to Be a Ghost in Bangkok? How to Be a Ghost in Bangkok?

Director: Jing Zhao

Year: 2025

After being ghosted by a romantic partner during a trip to Bangkok, the artist situates a contemporary act within a timeless Southeast Asian ghost cultural gesture, transforming personal heartbreak into a surreal exploration of ghosthood while reimagining its embodiment through ten playful yet haunting guidelines. Shifting between satire and introspection, the film contemplates the fragility of relationships and the futility and opacity of communication in the hyper-connected digital age.