RIK LANDER
Rik is a director, producer and copy writer across multiple platforms like TV, web, live events and social media. Credits include TV commercials for Low Cost Holidays, EDF Energy and Playstation, and interactive ads for E! Entertainment and HP. He's also made TV series from The Word to the Turner Prize, the BBC's first interactive soap and a No1 music video. Rik also engages in funded research into new digital formats such as 'pervasive dramas' where the audience are characters and the story emerges around the city across multiple mediaTV Series
For TV, Rik has directed Rachel Hunter on a fashion shoot, Graham Norton in the LA public toilet where George Michael was busted and naked farmers on an Alpine hillside. He's done all sorts of genres from low-brow trash to high-brow arts docs. TV Series include: The Turner Prize, Japanorama, Mechannibals, Eurotrash, The Word, Lonely Planet Guides, MTV World TourMost recent: Mechannibals for BBC2 / Coolest: Trekking in a Wild World for Travel Planet / Streetcred: Ricky Tomlinson's Football My Arse DVD / Most Expensive: Directed an episode of BBC 2 flagship series, A History of British Art. / Scariest: Rik used to do the live OB's on the Word / Weirdest: Rik met some 'interesting people' shooting on most series of C4's Eurotrash. Click here to request a full CV
Web drama
Rik made on of the UK's first web dramas magic-tree which came out in 2001. He produced, directed and script edited Wannabes, the BBC's first interactive soap in 2006.EDUCATIONAL
Rik has made a lot of educational media, much of it interactive. Most recently he directed a series of short videos with Punk Science at the Science Museum for use by teachers to encourage reluctant students to engage with scientific ideas.
ART INSTALLATIONS and PERFORMANCES
In parallel with his commercial and research careers Rik has made a series of art works. Click here for a small collection of examples.