Ruben Van Leer is an award-winning filmmaker 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. As artistic director of Truth.io, Van Leer creates cross-media works that investigate the intersections of technology, culture, and human experience.
