Jeroen Stout | CV

Jeroen Stout graduated in 1993 from the University of Amsterdam in Political Science. After university he started his career as a journalist and a film critic for Dutch national broadcaster NTR at Radio 1. Simultaniously he realized several radio documentaries for NTR and VPRO. In 1995 he was trained as an editor and sound engineer at Salto. At the Media Academy he studied text interpretation and script writing for television documentaries, followed by a course in theatre directing at Kunstweb. In 2011 Jeroen participated at the Binger Filmlab in the course ‘Story editing’ by Franz Rodenkirchen. 
In recent years Jeroen has specialized in radiodrama, soundwalks and -installations and sound recording for film. In 2006 he won the Prix Italia for his radiodram Lee the Forest – spirit of the pioneer. As initiator, director and main writer, he headed in 2009/2010 the writer's team of Paul Jan Nelissen, Henk Apotheker, Rene Appel and Gerben Hellinga, for the succesfull Radio 1 serial De Moker. A second serial, The Spider, followed in 2014. Commissioned by IFFR 2012 he wrote and directed the Hive, a soundwalk in the Rotterdam district ‘Kop van Zuid’, followed by other sound installations like Een Haagse affaire and Een betere stad. Next to his soundworks Jeroen is senior editor at the Radio 1 Cultural Magazine Kunststof,  and commissioning editor at TV NPO2 documentary programme ”Het Uur van de Wolf”. 

Relevant professional experience

1996  VPRO; two radio documentaries about Sarajevo for the national radio show De Avonden.
1997 - 2001 NTR; reporting, editorial work and broadcasting technique for several national radio shows at Radio 5.
2001 - present NTR; reporting, directing, editorial work and film criticism for Radio 1's art show Kunststof. 
2006 - 2016  Filmkrant; interviews, reviews and hosting/moderating podcasts
2007 - 2008   NPS Cultura; film criticism on television. 
2010   Het Gesprek; film criticism for De Recensenten 
2010 - 2012  Cultural Press Agency: moderating talkshows on ao International Film Festival Rotterdam, Springdance and Holland Festival. 
2016 – present  Sound recordist for film.
2021 - Sound designer for Jan-Willem van Dam's experimental film The Last (Dis)enchanting Days
In 2010 Jeroen conducted a script writing workshop at Willem de Kooning Art Academy, and in 2015 a workshop Radio Drama at the University of Amsterdam. 

In development

WARFEVER/OORLOGSROES 90’ Creative documentary 
Despite its intrinsic horror, the warzone is home to some. Time and again explosives specialist Chris and paramedic Courtney risk their lives in wars that are not theirs. What is the impact of Courtneys’ unplanned pregnancy on their life in the warzone?
Co-writer and sound recordist: Jeroen Stout
Production: Volya Films (NL)/Cinephage (FR)/Petrapan Films (NMK)
Support: Dutch Film Fund, Région Sud-France, Prince Bernhard Culture Fund and VEVAM Fund

CASSETTEPOST AAN DE MAAS Pilot for a series of sound interventions in public space, connecting citizens of Rotterdam with the history of their city through voices from the past. 
Development supported by Droom en Daad Fund.

Films, projects & scripts

2024 KALABAKA JUKEBOX 85’/ Live-mix film soundtrack
The 15th edition of the Skopje-based Makedox Documentary Festival gave Jeroen Stout carte blanche to compile and live-mix a new soundtrack for the 1929 Dutch/German silent movie Kalabaka, a travel through the Balkan. The life event became something between a life-set, a concert and a film screening, where dancing, singing along or just watching and listening were made possible.

2021 -  THE BRIDGE A feature film script and multi-media installation based on the stories and memories of Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak, embedded with the Georgian troops in Afghanistan and Irak. 
Photobook/film script/installation by Ineke Smits, Jeroen Stout & Thomas Dworzak 

2019  LITTLE MAN, TIME AND THE TROUBADOUR - 108’/ creative documentary
Artist Sipa Labakhua travels through Abkhazia with his marionette theatre, looking for the national soul of his small, unknown fatherland. A roadmovie that sheds new light on a highly topical question in a world that is on fire: What is a country? Soundrecording and music rerecording on set: Jeroen Stout
The Filmkitchen, in coproduction with IKON/EO, Stout&Smits and IntiFlim, Belgium

2018  THE NATION – 8 x 30’ / radio serial for NTR Radio 1
An adaptation of the succesful theatre play The Nation, originally written and directed by Eric de Vroedt for Het Nationale Theater in the Hague. A rollar coaster through the multicultural landscape of the Netherlands. Who is responsible for the disappaerance of Ismaël A? A redheaded police officer, his salafist brother, an of child abuse suspected politician, a crooked project developer or maybe his own desperate mother?
Adaptation&direction: Jeroen Stout. Sound design: Mark Glynne & Selle Sellink.
Production: Stout&Smits

2017 EEN BETERE STAD - Audio installation for an exhibition, commissioned by curator Linda Vlassenrood. 
The development and decline of the architectural expansion plan for Amsterdam between 1935 and 2006 is brought to life in 3 sound installations, featuring the architects, residents and other involved people and institutions.
Script&direction: Jeroen Stout. Music and sound design: Jan-Bas Bollen
Production: Stout&Smits

2016 DE BAARMOEDER - 30’ / radio play for NTR Radio
A television team, an escaped criminal and a researcher are locked in a cave by accident. Contact with the outside world is impossible. While waiting for help, the tension is rising.
Script: Jamal Ouariachi. Direction: Jeroen Stout. Music: Hans Jansen. Sound design: Mark Glynne & Selle Sellink
Production: Stout&Smits

2015 IN LIMBO - 20’ / soundwalk for the art exhibition Gimme Shelter, commissioned by curator Sacha Bronwasser.
Three ghosts from different times meet each other at the overgrown ruins of the Dutch fort Fort Nieuwersluis. One of them is not aware yet that he has died. 
Script&direction: Ineke Smits, Jeroen Stout. Sound design: Mark Glynne 
Production: Stout&Smits