FEATURE FILM
2017 Bitter Flowers
2016 Stop Acting Now
DOCUMENTARY
2020 WTC A Love Story
2014 Maarten Van Severen:
Addicted to Every Possibility
SHORTS
2018 The Day The Dogs Disappeared
2017 iii
2016 Dag Vreemde Man (Hello, Stranger)
2015 Nkosi Coiffure
2015 Allegory of the Jam Jar
2015 Guest
2010 Misschien Later
Jens Bouttery (BE) is a Brussels/Rotterdam-based multi-instrumentalist & composer active in a wide range of artistic disciplines. In 2011, he finishes 'Jazzdrums' studies at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, obtaining the Toots Thielemans Jazz Award for his school career and final project The Dubtapes.
After graduation, Jens started working for several bands and film projects and is active in multiple performance domains, including theatre & dance. He creates universes specific to every piece of work ranging from live drums to ambient soundscapes, orchestral works to popsongs or electro-acoustic music to IDM.
During the past couple of years, Jens created soundtracks for films such as the multiple award-winning short Misschien Later and documentary Maarten Van Severen: Addicted to Every Possibility, both by Moon Blaisse. Other successful shorts he made music for, are Allegory of the Jam Jar and The Day The Dogs Disappeared by Boris Kuijpers & Ruth Mellaerts. His first soundtrack for feature film Stop Acting Now was a production with long time theatre partner Wunderbaum.
With his band Hi Hawaii, he is making ‘experimental fizz pop explosion’. Other current music bands are Les Chroniques de l’Inutile, Llop, Thunderblender and Jef Neve’s “Spirit Control”. Together with guitarist/composer Benjamin Sauzereau, he co-founded the Brussels based label ~suite.
He recently scored the Belgian documentary WTC A Love Story, film focusing on the abandoned Brussels neighborhood ‘Little Manhattan’ and the private owners and politicians’ recent project to redynamise the area. The synopsis reads as follows: “Taking the WTC towers as its object, the film investigates contemporary urban redevelopment processes, and traces the influx of new ecological and participatory ideas and their actual impact. WTC A Love Story uses fiction as a method to explore whose stories enter the stage when the process of political representation is accelerated.”