# Bas, off camera · WonderLoop > Who is Bas Dumoulin really? The films that shaped me, the awards, my short films and commercials, what I read and play, and the companies I build. ## About this page - Pagina: https://www.wonderloop.nl/en/bas.html - Markdown: https://www.wonderloop.nl/en/bas.md - Taal: en - Contact: info@wonderloop.nl · +31 6 8102 5396 · https://www.wonderloop.nl/contact.html --- **Off camera** ## Who I am when the camera's off. Film director, born in Roermond in 1972, lives in Weesp. 25 years behind the camera. Here's the man in front of it. Beeld: Bas Dumoulin, smiling, outdoors **The path** ### From editor to director to entrepreneur. I started at the Film Academy in Amsterdam , as an editor. But I wanted to direct. So I wrote The Bicycle and, with my friend [Reinier Selen](https://nl.linkedin.com/in/reinier-selen-a0b1527) , founded the production house [Rinkelfilm](https://www.rinkelfilm.com/) (rinkel, Dutch for the chime of a small bell). I made the short with Dutch comedian [Freek de Jonge](https://freekdejonge.nl/) and told the entire story without a single word of dialogue . That got me into [Columbia University](https://arts.columbia.edu/) in New York, where I earned my MFA in Film Directing. The Bicycle was acquired by MoMA , the Smithsonian and the Radio & TV Museum in LA. In New York I met Eda . We have two kids, Ebru and Milan . We moved to Istanbul , where I became Creative Director of Motion Design at Rabarba , Turkey's biggest digital agency. We won a pile of awards there. After the Gezi protests of 2013 I came back to the Netherlands. For nine years I built the branding agency Studio MINSK . And in 2023 I started WonderLoop . Beeld: Bas reading a script on a green-screen set _I mostly combined a lot of live-action green-screen footage with 2D and 3D motion design. These days AI takes over more and more. The way of making it changes, but telling a story well stays what matters most._ **The shelf** ### What's on the shelf. Awards for the campaigns and films I made with my team, at Rabarba and at Columbia. Beeld: Bas's awards: Emmy, HeavyLight Digital, Felis, Crystal Apples, Effies, Golden Spider, Digital Age, Milos Forman - 1 Emmy Award - 1 HeavyLight Digital Award - 2 Felis Awards - 6 Crystal Apples - 3 Effie Awards - 1 Golden Spider - 3 Digital Age Awards - 1 Milos Forman Award (Columbia) Beeld: Bas holding a Felis Award _With the Felis. A cat cast in bronze._ **Cinema** ### The short films I made myself. The Bicycle — MoMA · Smithsonian · LA Dos Más — short film Dating Rosie 16+ · not shown Tomorrow Never Comes **Broadcast** ### Commercials, the traditional way. Zekur — health insurance PLUS — Sonic Raging Runners İş Yatırım — Trade Master **New tools** ### Commercials, made with AI. Daren — my first attempt Green Flash Chicken Deal — personalized **Experiment** ### Short films, fully AI. Mars-X Yellow Tail What? **Trapezium** ### The feature film I'm going to make. Trapezium. A feature film, built with the tools I now use every day. Not a commercial. The real thing. More on this soon. **Taste** ### Eleven films that stuck. _E.T. Steven Spielberg_ Beeld: Ju Dou poster _Ju Dou Zhang Yimou_ Beeld: The Merry Widow poster _The Merry Widow Ernst Lubitsch_ Beeld: Cinema Paradiso poster _Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore_ Beeld: Stanno Tutti Bene poster _Stanno Tutti Bene Giuseppe Tornatore_ Beeld: Edward Scissorhands poster _Edward Scissorhands Tim Burton_ Beeld: Schizopolis poster _Schizopolis Steven Soderbergh_ Beeld: Bianca poster _Bianca Nanni Moretti_ Beeld: Caro Diario poster _Caro Diario Nanni Moretti_ Beeld: La Notte di San Lorenzo poster _La Notte di San Lorenzo Taviani Brothers_ Beeld: Vivre Sa Vie poster _Vivre Sa Vie Jean-Luc Godard_ **Books** ### Three novels, three business books. #### Fiction Beeld: The New York Trilogy cover _The New York Trilogy Paul Auster_ Beeld: The Baron in the Trees cover _The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino_ _Magnus Arjen Lubach_ #### Business Beeld: Traction cover _Traction Gino Wickman_ Beeld: The 4 Disciplines of Execution cover _The 4 Disciplines of Execution Sean Covey_ Beeld: Your Most Important Number cover _Your Most Important Number Lee Benson_ **Music** ### What's on. _Luca Carboni_ _Joji_ Beeld: Michael Jackson _Michael Jackson pre-HIStory_ **Television** ### My favorite series. Beeld: Breaking Bad poster _Breaking Bad_ _Ed_ Beeld: Dark Matter poster _Dark Matter_ **The entrepreneur** ### When I'm not making film, I automate. I started with Zapier, then Make, then n8n. By now almost everything runs through Claude Code. Not a programmer, but an entrepreneur. That's how three companies came about. Beeld: BordPraat website #### BordPraat AI canvas art on the wall for restaurants and cafés. Link: https://bordpraat.nl Beeld: PubTrivia website #### PubTrivia 24/7 digital pub quiz for bars and restaurants. Link: https://pub-trivia.nl Beeld: WonderLoop website #### WonderLoop The studio you're on right now. Film, with the speed of AI underneath. Link: / **Sayings** ### Three sayings I love. "A zebra is a horse designed by committee." Turkish saying, in two parts "Göte giren şemsiye açılmaz." An umbrella that's gone up your ass won't open. "Açılırsa da, çıkarmaya çalışma." And if it opens, don't try to take it out. ### Enough about me. Want to make something? Or just see what I do. [See the work](/en/case-studies.html) [Get in touch](/en/contact.html)