Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Ruben Van Leer is an award-winning filmmaker, stage director and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores humanity’s evolving relationship with myth, memory, and the unseen forces that connect us across time and culture. His acclaimed sci-fi opera Symmetry (2015), filmed inside CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, earned 11 international awards, including the Golden Prague for Best Performance Arts, and is available on AppleTV. Recent works include The Bird of a Thousand Voices (2024), a transmedia stage work inspired by Armenian folklore, and Power of Water (2021), a climate-focused spectacle film broadcast to 180 million Eurovision viewers. Van Leer’s pioneering projects, such as Sacred Environment (2017), a VR and live orchestral performance that won the Audience Award at the Holland Festival, and The Boxer (2018), an opera-film for Dutch National Opera, have been showcased at venues like the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, NOWNESS, Teatro Grande Pompeii, and Ballet National de Marseille. Van Leer holds a Master of Arts in Social Design from the Sandberg Institute and a Master of Fine Arts in Film from the Netherlands Film Academy, which inform his innovative approach to cross-media storytelling. As the artistic director of Truth.io, Van Leer creates immersive works that investigate the intersections of culture, technology, and human experience.
Writer, designer and director of film & media arts productions. www.rubenvanleer.studio
TRUTH.IO IS AN INDEPENDENT PLATFORM FOR CROSSMEDIA ART PROJECTS.
Powerhouse production team based in Amsterdam. www.newams.com
Media production studio for innovative experiential design.
Co-producer of film production Symmetry www.symmetrymovie.com released internationally.