Soh Alex Vermeulen

Alex Vermeulen is known as an award winning Dutch multimedia artist. Alex Vermeulen experiments with hybrids of a wide range of media including films, photography, film-books, performances, theater, sculptures and installations. He is also a founder of Stichting Syndicaat, a foundation aimed at stimulating and supporting the arts in the broadest sense of the word by initiating, directing and producing projects that are carried out on an international scale. As of 2015, Vermeulen has been exclusively working under the name SOH Alex Vermeulen. His primary early influences were film makers such as the Nouvelle Vague director Claude Chabrol and he got inspired by the obscure movie ""J'irai comme un cheval fou" (1973) by Fernando Arrabal, the absurdist movie Themroc (1973) by Claude Faraldo, the theatrical movie 'Querelle" (1982) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hiroshima mon amour is a 1959 French Left Bank drama film directed by French film director Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras. and the cinematographic fantasy world of Georges Méliès (1862-1938) "As a kid, I was fascinated by movie stills displayed in the windows of cinemas and would stare at them for hours. Those images were so enticing and seductive, perhaps more so because I was too young to be let in, and didn't have the money to buy a ticket anyway. I compensated by imagining my own plot lines, dialogue and sets for the films I never saw. Much later, my fascination with films inspired me to put a new spin on an old form - film books. Usually produced to document existing films, my versions documented imaginary movies in a way that most readers assumed they were real, provoking in them a fantasy for movies that did not exist. My visual scripts thereby played with the space between reality and imagination, a theme seen throughout much of my work. Until today my fascination for film still remains. I mix all media; for example my autonomous sculptures serve also as props in my photographs, movies and video installations. My credo is: art doesn't have boundaries, doesn't need to be categorized: it is my challenge to experiment with all media or invent new formats in order to serve, provoke and feed people's imagination and fantasy." SOH Alex Vermeulen Vermeulen directed and produced 7 film books, a full feature film and several short movies. The latest film book SOH10 the Epic will be released October 2018. It's a digital book included animations, voice overs and a music score.