Hendrik Willemyns

Lotuk is Willemyn's first feature-length documentary. It accompanies Arsenal's third studio-album Lotuk and shows portraits of four American guest-vocalists on the album: Shawn Smith (Brad, Satchel, Pigeonhed), John Garcia (Kyuss, Vista Chino), Cortney Tidwell and Grant Hart (Hüsker Dü). The documentary was selected for Docville,[4] the International Documentary Film Festival in Leuven (BE)

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In 2010 Willemyns created this six-part documentary for one of Belgium's national TV-stations. Each episode highlights a literary classic.

• Ep. 1 – F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tender is the night[8]
• Ep. 2 – Chinua Achebe – Things fall apart[9]
• Ep. 3 – Stanislaw Lem – Solaris[10]
• Ep. 4 – George Orwell – Burmese Days[11]
• Ep. 5 – Roberto Bolaño – Los detectives salvajes[12]
• Ep. 6 – Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood

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Featuring Ayumi Ito and Dean Fujioka, the film tells the story of a Japanese DJ fighting his inner demons. It is written by Willemyns and Johnny Whitney (The Blood Brothers) and produced in collaboration with Japanese director Ken Ochiai.[14] This mid-length feature film was turned into a film concert premiering at Film Fest Gent[15] in 2014, with the soundtrack performed live by Arsenal.

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For his second movie, Willemyns took on both the writing and directing. Featuring Natsuko Kobayashi, Kazuhiko Kanayama and Akaji Maro a.o., it shows the dark side of the music industry through the eyes of a young woman in Tokio, dreaming of a life as a musician. The soundtrack is created by Hendrik Willemyns and Tim Bruzon, which is again performed live in a series of film concerts. The movie was sold to several countries and HBO.[17]