Premio Combat Prize

Ruben van Leer (Naarden, 1984) is an artistic director, creative producer and media artist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Van Leer ’s cinematic works are cross-disciplinary; a collaboration with the performing arts, next media & technology, pop iconography and the natural sciences. The visual practice primarily addresses the ambiguity of our broadband-age. Van Leer invites his audience to cross narrative spaces and be a physical part of the work. His surrealistic works embed real and concrete elements, bridging with the intersubjective.
Van Leer won several cultural prizes (including the NTR Webdance competition) . Previously, he worked with choreographer Lukas Timulak (award winning short film: Instrument) , composer Michel van der Aa (3D movie opera Sunken Garden and interactive film project The Book Of Sand) , film maker Peter Greenaway (installation Writing on Water) and pop band The Black Eyed Peas (live visuals Energy Never Dies Tour - Europe and USA).
His latest project Symmetry is a dance-opera filmed inside CERN the large particle accelerator. Choreography and music depict an inner journey of a modern physicist, who is looking for the smallest primordial particle and a love without an end…
His works have been exhibited internationally including Futur en Seine Paris, Agité Y Sirva Mexico, Holland Festival Amsterdam and HBO USA.
Academic background: studied editorial design at the Sandberg Institute MFA (2007) , Master’s Netherlands Film Academy MA (2013), and a semester advanced filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute (2006).