He has directed and produced videos for artists such as Tom Waits, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Sandra Cretu and Whitney Houston.
[4] Dolezal worked on dozens of music videos for Queen, Tom Waits, Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, and Whitney Houston.
[5][6] Dolezal and Mercury first met when the Austrian director and film producer was working as a reporter for a German television, during an interview with the band.
After the interview, he made a "tongue-in-cheek remark", telling Mercury to give him a call if he needed a good director for his next videos.
[5] Mercury's manager did call Dolezal in 1985, and asked him if he could shoot the music video for "One Vision", Queen's new single.
Although filmed in color, Dolezal decided to render the video in black and white, in a "desperate attempt to conceal Mercury's physical deterioration".
While preparing her world tour, she gave full access to Dolezal to trail her, "wanting to tell her story at a time when speculation about her life behind the scenes was intensifying.
"[7] Dolezal was finishing a music video for Houston when the singer traveled to Austria to give her "final approval".
[2] Interviews, revealing moments with Houston and her family in the backstage and onstage performances were all filmed, and the documentary was set to be released under the title Whitney Close Up.
After reading the headlines about she being sent home from the Academy Awards because of cocaine addiction, Dolezal called Houston, and then came to her house.
[2] The more than one hundred hours of footage remained in obscurity for twenty years, until they were released in Whitney: Can I Be Me, co-directed by Dolezal, in 2017.
[8][9] Dolezal has received three Romy awards, most recently in 2008 – together with Rossacher – for the documentary series Weltberühmt in Österreich – 50 Jahre Austropop.