Bram Ruiter

Directing

Bram Ruiter

Born

1989-01-26 (37)

Place of birth

Almelo, Netherlands

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Endless Sea poster
NR

Endless Sea is a textural, oneiric exploration of the inability to escape captured within the confines of Grand Theft Auto: Andreas.

Endless Sea

2015

No Service poster
NR

The reception ebbs and flows as the unfamiliar landscape whirls by the window of a plane or train or car. Communication is delayed, fragmented, interrupted. Memories of a distant country.

No Service

2017

No Service poster
NR

The reception ebbs and flows as the unfamiliar landscape whirls by the window of a plane or train or car. Communication is delayed, fragmented, interrupted. Memories of a distant country.

No Service

2017

Perpetual Spawning poster
NR

The code flips through an array of virtual pedestrians, fading in and out of existence, to be endlessly replaced by the next, creating a time-lapse in real-time.

Perpetual Spawning

2018

Depression poster
NR

Sunlight particles reflect in a shallow pool which functions as a natural irrigation system. An old camera, possibly from 2003, captures them.

Depression

2025

Infinite Skies poster
NR

Infinite Skies, a machinima created by Bram Ruiter and Martin Gerrits during their film school years, explores themes of grief and purgatory. This video work marks an early milestone in Ruiter's journey into digital storytelling, setting its narrative against the expansive, generative landscapes of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and drawing inspiration from Philip Solomon’s game video art.

Infinite Skies

2011

Here & Elsewhere poster
NR

A romantic film in which water serves as a guiding force for a journey with an unclear destination.

Here & Elsewhere

2023

rare vines poster
NR

rare vines is a diaristic exploration and an euology shaped like a Vine Compilation: six seconds per video in a gapless stream of images and using the qualifier 'rare' in its title.

rare vines

2018

Labirint poster
NR

Two halves split by the perseverance of a scorpion. Come on, feet.

Labirint

2017

Omhoger poster
NR

A young couple has drifted apart, when all of a sudden a mysterious figure appears in their backyard.

Omhoger

2019

December Lights poster
NR

Observing light in the month of december.

December Lights

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A Weave of Light poster
6.0

An anthology film shaped by six people who share their desires and imagination. Each part works towards a whole which is concerned with perception and being perceived.

A Weave of Light

2021

Grounds, Premises poster
NR

Grounds, Premises takes the opening scene of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space to consider intention and failure. What emerges is a treatise on the creative process with the emphasis on process rather than result. This film was made while teaching a film production course at a castle in the South of the Netherlands, and is dedicated to our fleeting time together.

Grounds, Premises

2025

In Spite of Hell poster
NR

Reveling in the Autumn foliage, grazing through frosted fields, staring at an abandoned car. As fall slips into winter, the world burns and hell freezes over. Yet one must persist, in spite of hell. Shot on Ektachrome.

In Spite of Hell

2026

Is All Around poster
NR

A pictorial sense of space presented through frames; an illusion between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality; a play of the seen and not seen; a curiosity to the ‘left out’. Is All Around is an abstract impression of Zoey Benschop’s artistic process while making her 2022 work ‘Raamwerk’.

Is All Around

2024

How Many Seas poster
NR

A lone figure wanders through an alien landscape. The sound and image are blown-out, creating a textural grain inherent to MiniDV which mimics the sand blowing in the wind.

How Many Seas

2012

Boat (For David) poster
NR

On his boat, we go as slowly as possible while enjoying the movements around us. The sun in the rippled water, the dogs checking us out with jealousy. This largely unedited roll was filmed on one of the first sunny days of the year.

Boat (For David)

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