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KIRAC Ep.27 ft. Houellebecq
Online and live release on March 11 is postponed because of legal procedures. Trailer is offline also.
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In the mean time, you can read this New York Times article on the matter.
KIRAC Ep.26 ‘Cornucopia’
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 financial ceiling and escape the boredom of the art world.
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Live and Online premiere at 19:30, 2022 December 8. Runtime 27 minutes.
KIRAC Ep.25 ‘Male Love’
Short: This episode is the first of many about the bullshit surrounding a million euro art deal. And the desire of a couple of men to make a film about it.
Long: The film “Male Love” is one of several films surrounding a major art sale to the Boijmans. That sale really happened: the museum bought an installation by artist Paul McCarthy for 900,000 euros from collector Philip van den Hurk. But the films are a fictional setup of intrigues surrounding this deal, in which I myself as an artist seem to play a dubious role. On the one hand, I want to be paid by Philip to film this successful sale, but at the same time I can’t stand the fact that the museum is spending so much money on an artist other than myself; I’m furious that Philip is making so much money from the deal; and I’m doing everything in my power to make the deal fail. In this film you see how Philip gets wind of my intrigues during a dinner, while Diederik Boomsma, who’s a city councillor of the CDA (A Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands) and professor of philosophy of law and ethics Bart Janssen try to mediate between us. They represent the role of conscience and justice in the film from their social position, and are part of the fiction.
In Manhattan art review, Sean Tatol writes a review of this episode, and our films in general:
“Rather, the videos achieve an odd sense of realism, a reflection of the world back at itself at time when it seems almost impossible to grasp anything as it really is, and as a result these semi-performative semi-documentary intrusions into the art world become something that often feels more artistically potent and relevant, even “new”, than what the vast majority of what the arts currently has to offer, whether one is in Amsterdam or New York.”
2022 October 21, 36 minutes
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35 minutes, 2022 Oktober 18
KIRAC Ep.24 ‘Under a Sinking Sun’
This film was commissioned by KIOSK / KASK. An art school in Ghent, Belgium. They cancelled one day before the premiere. It is now available for the public. It’s a film about the desires and illusions of young art students coming of age in a world that is saying goodbye to the enlightenment and its values; about the cheerful anticipation with which they face the possibilities of a setting sun. This film features various canceled youths; they are no longer welcome at their school, academy or social environment because of accusations of sexually transgressive behaviour.
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75 minutes, 2022 April 2.
KIRAC Ep.23 ‘Honeypot’
In this film, you will witness the unlikely endeavour of right-wing conservative Sid Lukkassen who chivalrously tries to win the heart of lefty student Jini. When he enters her boudoir in Zandvoort, he gets caught up in a literary, enchanting and unpredictable world, in which Jini starts to undress him, surrounded by classical music and grapes. While Sid tries his best to connect to Jini, he realises that the woman has set him up for humiliation. How will Sid save himself from this situation? Will he, despite everything, find love?
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51 minutes. 2021, October 26
KIRAC Ep.22 ‘Reasons of Ego’
Oscar van der Kroon works for Dutch public television. He wants to do Avant Garde Television but his mediocrity is holding him back. At the end of the Episode, he promises to do some introspection.
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18 minutes, 2020, December 21
KIRAC Ep.21 ‘Buse’ (A Good Student)
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 school but she is afraid she will be kicked out for making a critical film about the world-renowned institution. KIRAC advises Buse to make the most of the decline of this institution and the bleak future it offers her.
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13 minutes. 2020, December 2
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KIRAC Ep. 20 ‘The Latent Potency of Rob Defares’ [EXTENDED VERSION]
ft. Jordan Wolfson and Beatrix Ruf
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 coat. Is the billionaire there to buy something, or just to shock the hell out of Jordan Wolfson? Jordan is an activist who wouldn’t pass up an opportunity to save the life of an animal. In this film, you can see how he adapts to the situation. Team-KIRAC (Tarik Sadouma, Kate Sinha and Stefan Ruitenbeek) identifies the dawn of a glorious and dangerous paradigm shift, shimmering beyond the horizon of this comedy of manners.
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23 minutes. 2020, November 4.
KIRAC Ep.19 The Goat
KIRAC 18 and 19 are one film published in two parts. Among other things, this films shows my attempts to pummel art collector Philip van den Hurk into a 16th century style mecenas. He has to stop buying art as investment commodities. He has to stop buying art on fancy art fairs. Instead, he should spend his money aristocratically on us, the KIRAC film people, without getting any material return, only entertainment and artistic confusion. An important tool in pummeling Philip is a trip to Cairo. In this non-western sanatorium, my friend and radical artist Tarik Sadouma will give him a treatment that will cure Philip of his late-capitalism art buying deceases. But, Philip is not just a passive patient. He emerges as a force to be reckoned with, and secures himself a highly sought-after spot in the KIRAC pantheon.
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45 minutes, 2020, October 15.
KIRAC Ep.18 ‘Parasites and Pecan Pie
KIRAC 18 and 19 are one film published in two parts. Among other things, this film shows my attempts to pummel art collector Philip van den Hurk into a 16th century style mecenas. He has to stop buying art as investment commodities. He has to stop buying art on fancy art fairs. Instead, he should spend his money aristocratically on us, the KIRAC film people, without getting any material return, only entertainment and artistic confusion. An important tool in pummeling Philip is a trip to Cairo. In this non-western sanatorium, my friend and radical artist Tarik Sadouma will give him a treatment that will cure Philip of his late-capitalism art buying deceases. But, Philip is not just a passive patient. He emerges as a force to be reckoned with, and secures himself a highly sought-after spot in the KIRAC pantheon.
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22 minutes, September 3, 2020.
KIRAC Ep.17 ‘Blackmail’
Artist Stefan Ruitenbeek and Collector Philip van den Hurk reflect upon a dark moment in their relationship.
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10 minutes, August 13, 2020. Watch Youtube below, Vimeo here, or download movie file.
KIRAC Ep.16 ‘King Philip and the Pied Flycatcher’
Team KIRAC hopes to extract some money from King Philip, a millionaire art collector. But Philip lures them into a strange affair with international star curator Charles Esche.
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66 minutes. September 21, 2019. Watch YouTube below or download movie file.
KIRAC Ep.15 ‘Time’s Up, Old Man’
Shit literally hits the fan. Starring star-architect Rem Koolhaas, Kate Sinha, Francis Bacon, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
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26 minutes, November 2, 2018. Watch YouTube below or download movie file.
KIRAC Ep.14 ‘Problem Child’
About a migrant child with an identity crisis. Starring Tarik Sadouma and his mother, Moulay Slimane, Kate Sinha and art teacher Frans Oosterhof.
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24 minutes. August 14, 2018. Watch YouTube below or download movie file.
KIRAC Ep.13 ‘Stigma’ (the Netflix deal)
We might lose our Netflix-deal after Kate called someone a spoiled bitch. Starring Stefan Ruitenbeek, Kate Sinha, Steven ten Thije, Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam.
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40 minutes. April 27, 2018. Watch YouTube below or download movie file.
Announcement: Safe Space Monsters here we come!
Announcement of the event that would lead up to the making of KIRAC Episode 13 ‘Stigma’. We got disinvited from the Rietveld Academy because of diversity issues but we are still coming.
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1 minute. February 5, 2018. Watch YouTube below or download movie file.
KIRAC Ep.12 ‘100% Integrity’
Bert Kreuk is an art collector who explains conceptual art in his book.
Starring: Stefan Ruitenbeek, Bert Kreuk.
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15 minutes. February 8, 2018. Watch YouTube below or download movie file.
KIRAC Ep.11 ‘Medusa’
An ode to the sexual power of neo-marxism.
Starring: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Documenta14 in Athens.
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10 minutes. January 28, 2018. Watch YouTube below or download movie file.
KIRAC Ep.10 ‘The bad breath of Mondriaan specialist Hans Janssen’
This film is applauded by KIRAC-fans for it’s comparison between Van Gogh and Mondriaan.
Starring: Kate Sinha, Hans Janssen, Vincent van Gogh, Piet Mondriaan.
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14 minutes. November 16, 2017. Watch YouTube below or download movie file
KIRAC Ep.9 ‘Who’s Afraid of Harvey Weinstein’
Kate Sinha about female sexuality in the #metoo era. About Harvey Weinstein and Léa Seydoux.
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9 minutes. October 20, 2017. Watch YouTube below or download movie file.
KIRAC Ep.8 ‘The Art of Stefan Simchowitz’
Our famous film about the notorious art-dealer.
Starring: Stefan Simchowitz, Oscar Murillo, Tarik Sadouma
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63 minutes. July 2, 2017. Watch YouTube below or download movie file
KIRAC Ep.7 ‘Indigenous Flags and Modernism’
Synnøve Persen, Sami people, Documenta 14, Athens.
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7 minutes. April 29, 2017. Watch YouTube below or download movie file.
KIRAC Ep.6 ‘De werken van Renzo Martens’ (The works of Renzo Martens, English version available in link below)
Renzo Martens, Iceberg Slim, Tarik Sadouma, Picasso.
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47 minutes. Dutch. February 9, 2017. Watch Dutch version on YouTube below
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KIRAC Ep.5 ‘The Tears of Mara McCarthy’
A gallerist cries under artistic pressure.
Starring: Tarik Sadouma, Mara McCarthy, Wally Hedrick, Simone Forti, David Hoyland, Stefan Simchowitz.
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12 minutes, October 15, 2016. Watch YouTube below or download movie file
KIRAC Ep.4 ‘The psychology of Jon Rafman’
Jon Rafman, Anna Uddenberg, Stedelijk Museum.
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16 minutes. October 10, 2016. Watch YouTube below or download movie file.
KIRAC Ep.3 ‘De Kunstsubsidiediscussie’ (The Art Subsidy Discussion)
What happens to artists when you start subsidising them? They start to transform into … .
Starring: Halbe Zijlstra, VVD, Merijn Oudenampsen, Bas Heijne.
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10 minutes, Dutch, English Subs. September 11, 2016. Watch YouTube below (English subtitles in CC).
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KIRAC Ep.2 ‘Niet op deze manier’ (Not in this way)
Amanda van Hesteren, Steven Rubinstein, Isabel Lamberti.
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25 minutes, Dutch, English subs. August 10, 2016. Watch YouTube below (English subtitles in CC) or
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KIRAC Ep.1 ‘Verontwaardiging in De Appel’ (Indignation at De Appel)
Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Alicja Kwade. De Appel.
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7 minutes, Dutch, English subs. Jun 6, 2016. Watch YouTube below (English subtitles in CC) or
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