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Hometown: Amsterdam
For Fans Of: Michel Gondry, MC Escher

It’s easy to mistake Roel Wouters for a filmmaker. “[What I do is] more about creating a certain circumstance or a certain condition,” insists the 32-year-old Dutch artist who works under the moniker Xelor (a lawsuit-avoiding variance on his more natural nickname, Rolex). Though his creations encompass graphic design, web conceptualizations and performance art, Wouters’ videos for zZz’s “Grip” and My Robot Friend’s “Robot High School” are the fullest realization of his “machines” yet, each a one-take mindbender based on a Gondry-like series of inventions.