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, and the cinematographic fantasy world of Georges Méliès (1862-1938)