22 Jan 2025

Amsterdam based Music Supervisor Laura Bell discusses music in films 

From On the Air - Mā runga iarere, 4:10 pm on 22 January 2025
Amsterdam based Music Supervisor Laura Bell

Amsterdam based Music Supervisor Laura Bell Photo: Daniel Cohen

Welcome to our new music series Sound Advice. Where we speak to Music Supervisors who meld the worlds of film and music unravelling the movies and soundtracks.

In this episode Maggie Tweedie speaks to Australian Music Supervisor Laura Bell. Based in Amsterdam she has worked on many projects from Steve McQueen’s 4-and-a-half-hour documentary Occupied City to Netflix’s Stromboli, the Amazon Series Modern Love Amsterdam, Cannes-nominated drama series Childhood Dreams and Sacha Polak’s Silver Haze.

Laura expertly selects the perfect song for a scene that drops at the perfect moment.

Songs Played:

Spoon - The Way We Get By

Dusty Springfield - Stay Awhile 

Jockstrap - Concrete Over Water 

Bob Dylan - Simple Twist of Fate

Oliver Coates, Mica Levi - Pre Barok

Oliver Coates - Under Pressure (Aftersun Version)

Balthazar - Losers

Underworld - Born Slippy