Ruben van Leer /news

film director / visual artist

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my short film The Boxer has been picked up again by MEME PAS PEUR International Film Festival (north of Paris) playing Saturday Feb 24th 2pm

festival trailer: https://vimeo.com/254111670

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Visualizing Beyond the Mind with Mariska de Groot, Nick Verstand & Ruben van Leer Three visual artists present their titillating works and talk about what connects and distinguishes them: where do they show their work, how does it come about, and what are their dreams and expectations for the future?

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Super happy our short film The Boxer became long form finalist this weekend in 3 categories: cinematography, editing and writing.

Shout out to: Frank Engel + De Nationale Opera - Dutch National Opera + Justin&Martin@Anomaly + New AMS Film Co. + amazing crew!

Festival link: http://www.ciclopefestival.com/ciclope-festival-2017-winners Watch The Boxer here: https://youtu.be/RHDcCJ9vuZI

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The Outback goes virtual in composer Kate Moore and artist Ruben van Leer’s collaboration, ‘Sacred Environment.’

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360 video excerpt from the live VR performance Sacred Environment with large orchestra and choir, during Holland Festival Proms in the Royal Concertgebouw - June 24th 2017

music by Kate Moore / VR installation by Ruben van Leer

VR performer in the photo: Esther Mugambi

(photo by Ada Nieuwendijk)

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Sacred Environment is a ground-breaking new work by the Dutch-Australian composer Kate Moore and visual artist Ruben van Leer, commissioned by the Holland Festival and NTR Radio. The oratorio is being performed and sung by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Choir. The Australian singer Alex Oomens goes on a virtual reality dream-track towards the Hunter Valley in Australia, originally the territory of the Dharug, Darkinjung and Wonnarua people. The audience will follow her on a big screen in search of the stoneless temple. In this piece, the changing meaning of sacred ground in our demythologised society is being explored. 

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The Ballet National of Marseille and ICK launch Kindertotenlieder, a two-step performance inspired from the lyrical masterpiece five lieder by Gustav Mahler. Apparition is the first part of this creation, in which innocence and hope are exalted into a danced and sung performance. Film director Ruben van Leer got invited to create the animated stage design. A theater piece in development... (2017/2018)

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https://youtu.be/cO4h4-2Wyro VR 360 video excerpt of project MortonF.net by director Sjaron Minailo, creative producer Ruben van Leer, performer Miri Lee, music composer Anat Spiegel and installation piece by Jennifer Tee.

(watch in VR format using Google Chrome)

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SWFF BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM - The Boxer (Netherlands) by Ruben van Leer; Frank Engel is a boxer by day and a tenor singer by night. In a fight with himself, he conquers his biggest fear: to let his voice be heard in the opera to a large audience. The film is a fictionalised short drama piece, starring real-life character Frank Engel, shot during an actual opera performance in the Dutch National Opera and featuring a poem by acclaimed street-poet and voice artist Johnny Bang Reilly.

http://www.sydneyworldfilmfestival.com

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Tigran Hamasyan's "The Cave of Rebirth," from his 2017 album, An Ancient Observer. Video directed by Ruben van Leer; produced by Truth.io

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3D fractals and jazz music; a new music video with music by Tigran Hamasyan and directed by Ruben van Leer

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short film directed by Ruben van Leer

boxer & tenor: Frank Engel

poem & voice: Johnny Bang Reilly

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new commercial 2016 campaign for the Dutch National Opera directed by Ruben van Leer

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online digital art work www.mortonf.net in collaboration with stage director Sjaron Minailo and the Holland Festival

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online digital art work www.mortonf.net in collaboration with stage director Sjaron Minailo and the Holland Festival 

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Ruben van Leer has been selected for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 for his latest film work Symmetry