Movies: Stefan Ruitenbeek

French writer Michel Houellebecq is guest-starring with Jini van Rooijen, of Honey Pot (2021) fame, in the twenty-seventieth film by Dutch art collective KIRAC....

Artist Stefan Ruitenbeek and Collector Philip van den Hurk reflect upon a dark moment in their relationship....

KIRAC was asked by Rotary club to make a little promo-video for collecting art. Frieze Art Fair was very supportive of giving KIRAC acces. We were allowed to film from 1 till 5, but they wanted us to leave after 30 minutes because a gallery owner got...

Buse, a teenager from Istanbul, is an art student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She wants to make a movie about her experiences at the school but she is afraid she will be kicked out for making a critical film about the world-renowned ...

The dizzying account of the encounters between the three main actors of KIRAC (Kate Sinha, Tarik Sadouma and Stefan Ruitenbeek) and young people who want to play a part in their work in one way or another, in particular Jini van Rooijen, the star of ...

In this film, you will witness the unlikely endeavour of right-wing conservative Sid Lukassen who chivalrously tries to win the heart of lefty student Jini. When he enters her boudoir in Zandvoort, he gets caught up in a literary, enchanting and unp...

Join Team-KIRAC on a dark trip to Cairo, as they try to transform King Philip (a.k.a. art collector Philip van den Hurk) into the ultimate "maecenas"....

Moulay ‘Baby Seal Eyes’ Slimane, troubled by his migrant identity, dresses up as Dutch slave trader and tries to come to terms with himself, under the command of gonzo artist Tarik Sadouma....

Team KIRAC hopes to extract some money from King Philip (a.k.a. Philip van den Hurk), a millionaire art collector. But Philip lures them into a strange affair with international star curator Charles Esche....

We stumble upon the Sami Flag project. Which exemplifies a very typical mix of modernistic cliches and political cliches, very common for art events such as Documenta....

A film about the Los Angeles art dealer Stefan Simchowitz. In his own unique way, artist Stefan Ruitenbeek observes Simchowitz’ daily life, capturing his movements through the colourful biotope of millionaire art buyers in Los Angeles....

Sandra has fled cold Toronto. She thought she could be a loving wife, but when the lockdowns forced her to spend one hundred percent of her time with her husband, she found it so awful that the only option was to run away....

“Male Love” explores the intrigue and drama of a million-euro art deal. I’m an artist caught in the center, filming the deal while wrestling with feelings of resentment as the Boijmans Museum spends heavily on another artist’s work. As I scheme to di...

Bert Kreuk is an art collector who explains conceptual art in his book....

Oscar van der Kroon works for Dutch public television. He wants to do Avant Garde Television but his mediocrity is holding him back. At the end of the Episode, he promises to do some introspection....

We show how the ideology and aesthetics of the art on display can be directly traced back to the economic position of de Appel....

An episode about integrity, ambition and good intentions. Filmmaker Isabel Lamberti and producer Steven Rubinstein are scouting for 3 girls who are into sex a lot. They go looking for black girls in the Bijlmer. We start asking questions and criticiz...

Renzo Martens, Iceberg Slim, Tarik Sadouma, Picasso....

Art is a product of abundance! Episode 26 begins where episode 25 left us, and shows the dramatic attempts of art dealer Paul van Esch to shatter his financial ceiling and escape the boredom of the art world....

About the psychology of the art subsidy discussion. Artists find it difficult to cope with their position and get confused....