Object Permanence of Desire

cinepoem, 5min, 2024
Cinepoem in collaboration with Femke Zwiep, made for initiative Nieuwe Gronden by Wintertuin and InScience. 
Credits

Performance: Femke Zwiep
Director, editor, 3D: Rutger Nijkamp
Camera: Sebastiaan Verbeeten
Animation: Timaeus
Color: Leon van Engelen
Sound Master: Timo Muilof
Music: Rutger Nijkamp

Hendrik as Victor

docufiction, 22min, 2022
Filmmaker Rutger Nijkamp sets out to make a short-film with his friend Hendrik in the lead role of Victor. In the process of filmmaking, they explore Hendrik’s lost creative ambitions as an actor.
Credits

Victor: Hendrik Schuthof
Director, editor: Rutger Nijkamp
Crew: Sebastiaan Verbeeten
Crew: Daphne Themen
Color: Leon van Engelen
Sound Mix: Tomasz Kulpiński
Music: Rutger Nijkamp

free download

documentary, 5min, 2020

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Artist portrait of asian students studying and making electronic music in Berlin. They talk about how nature flows through their electronic works. This video is a free download into the experiential world of these young artists. Interviewed are Mizuki and Gina. Shot as part of a pressure cooker film project assignment from the WdKA.
Credits

Daphne Themen
Charlotte Schenk
Robin Tijdeman
Rutger Nijkamp

Teaser Movies That Matter: Freedom ‘19

teaser, 1min, 2019
Short teaser for the Movies That Matter filmfestival (2020), film festival held in The Hague. With their main theme in mind - 75 years of freedom in The Netherlands - I created a teaser that both celebrates and reflects on the theme of freedom and its challenges.
Credits

Rutger Nijkamp