Stefan Ruitenbeek Movies
- 2020
KIRAC 20: The Latent Potency of Rob Defares
KIRAC 20: The Latent Potency of Rob Defares02020HD
In KIRAC's 20th film, you can see how artist Jordan Wolfson is shocked when billionaire Rob Defares comes walking into his exhibition wearing a fur...
- 2021
KIRAC 23: Honeypot
KIRAC 23: Honeypot62021HD
In this film, you will witness the unlikely endeavour of right-wing conservative Sid Lukassen who chivalrously tries to win the heart of lefty...
- 2018
KIRAC 15: Time's Up, Old Man
KIRAC 15: Time's Up, Old Man02018HD
Shit literally hits the fan. Starring star-architect Rem Koolhaas, Kate Sinha, Francis Bacon, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
- 2019
KIRAC 16: King Philip and the Pied Flycatcher
KIRAC 16: King Philip and the Pied Flycatcher02019HD
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...
- 2017
KIRAC 8: The Art of Stefan Simchowitz
KIRAC 8: The Art of Stefan Simchowitz02017HD
A film about the Los Angeles art dealer Stefan Simchowitz. In his own unique way, artist Stefan Ruitenbeek observes Simchowitz’ daily life,...
- 2023
KIRAC 27: Houellebecq
KIRAC 27: Houellebecq02023HD
French writer Michel Houellebecq is guest-starring with Jini van Rooijen, of Honey Pot (2021) fame, in the twenty-seventieth film by Dutch art...
- 2020
KIRAC 18: Parasites and Pecan Pie
KIRAC 18: Parasites and Pecan Pie02020HD
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".
- 2020
KIRAC 17: Blackmail
KIRAC 17: Blackmail02020HD
Artist Stefan Ruitenbeek and Collector Philip van den Hurk reflect upon a dark moment in their relationship.
- 2020
KIRAC 21: Buse (A Good Student)
KIRAC 21: Buse (A Good Student)02020HD
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...
- 2018
KIRAC 11: Medusa
KIRAC 11: Medusa02018HD
A central motif in this episode is not the nonsense but the meaning of obscure discursive postmodern language. For some people, like the Documenta...
- 2016
KIRAC 5: The Tears of Mara McCarthy
KIRAC 5: The Tears of Mara McCarthy02016HD
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...
- 2017
KIRAC 9: Who's Afraid of Harvey Weinstein?
KIRAC 9: Who's Afraid of Harvey Weinstein?02017HD
The #metoo Harvey Weinstein hype simplifies and idealizes female sexuality. All the abuse stories that are being shared must support a specific...
- 2016
KIRAC 1: Indignation at De Appel
KIRAC 1: Indignation at De Appel02016HD
We show how the ideology and aesthetics of the art on display can be directly traced back to the economic position of de Appel.
- 2018
KIRAC 13: Stigma (or 'the Netflix deal')
KIRAC 13: Stigma (or 'the Netflix deal')02018HD
The Gerrit Rietveld Academy disinvited us after student diversity complaints. This is our film about it.
- 2022
KIRAC 25: Male Love
KIRAC 25: Male Love02022HD
“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...
- 2017
KIRAC 6: The Works of Renzo Martens
KIRAC 6: The Works of Renzo Martens02017HD
Renzo Martens, Iceberg Slim, Tarik Sadouma, Picasso.
- 2018
KIRAC 12: 100% Integrity
KIRAC 12: 100% Integrity02018HD
Bert Kreuk is an art collector who explains conceptual art in his book.
- 2020
KIRAC 19: The Goat
KIRAC 19: The Goat02020HD
The film begins in Cairo, in Tariks cabaret, where Tarik puts on a magnificent show for art-collector Philip, leaving him starstruck. The film ends...
- 2018
KIRAC 14: Problem Child
KIRAC 14: Problem Child02018HD
Moulay ‘Baby Seal Eyes’ Slimane, troubled by his migrant identity, dresses up as Dutch slave trader and tries to come to terms with...
- 2022
KIRAC 26: Cornucopia
KIRAC 26: Cornucopia02022HD
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...