Rutger Hoedemaekers

Rutger Hoedemaekers is a recording artist and composer for film and TV. In 2010, Hoedemaekers and of his two friends converted a 3500 sq. ft. factory floor in Berlin Kreuzberg into a modular studio with 8 rooms. Over the next few years, the studio became a well-loved hub for composers and musicians, with tenants like Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O’Halloran and Hildur Gudnadottir. Initially working on his solo band project Bart Constant, Hoedemaekers turned his attention towards composing for film and TV in 2015, when he provided the score for Icelandic crime series Trapped (BBC4, France 2, ZDF) with Jóhannsson and Gudnadottir. He joined forces with Jóhannsson again on Darren Aronofsky’s mother! (2017), as well as on James Marsh’s The Mercy (2018), for which he wrote additional music. Hoedemaekers subsequently wrote the score for Hulu/ARTE series No Man's Land (2020). In 2020, he signed with FatCat’s imprint 130701 and released his first album on the label to critical acclaim, aptly titled The Age Of Oddities (2021). In 2022, he contributed eight original pieces to Ed Perkins' HBO documentary The Princess, alongside a score by Martin Phipps. He also provided the original score Shangri-La, Paradise Under Construction, which premiered at 2022 edition of IDFA. Most recently, Hoedemaekers created the score for Angeline Jolie-directed feature Without Blood, starring Selma Hayek and Demián Bichir, which premiered at TIFF 2024.