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Het Vreemd 

Compilation / Archive

Unreleased
Het Vreemd (volume 1) is a work-in-progress v/a compilation album of ‘lost’ and unreleased material from the Dutch underground music scene of 1982-1987. Drumcomputers and synthesizers!

Credits

Compiled by: Rutger Nijkamp
Photography archiving: Eli Hooper

Kom Binnen!

docu-series, 10 episodes (7-10min), 2024-2025
In “Kom Binnen!” three young filmmakers visit various shopkeepers of specialty stores in Rotterdam. Their shops are dissapearing because of changing consumer behavior and the aftermath of the corona crisis.
Credits

Made by:
Rutger Nijkamp
Daan van de Geest
Leon van Engelen

Supported by Mediaregeling, Gemeente Rotterdam.

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

Supported by Bekker-la Bastide-Fonds

Noisy neighbours

documentary, 5min, 2020

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In a housing block in Berlin, a community of asian music students are making electronic noise together. They talk about their inspirations and how nature flows through their electronic works.
 
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