The Essence

What is even better than watching people, is watching people watching people.

Short film Wouter De Paepe directed for the song "Sheep" by The Muttons.

Short film Wouter De Paepe directed for the song “Lieve Mercedes” by Camilo Donoso.

KAYAK reads the same backwards as forwards.

For the Breedbeeld Short Film Festival 2024, fifteen filmmakers were given a camera, a roll of super 8 film and carte blanche to do whatever they wanted with it. They shot and edited their films right into the camera, filming all the scenes chronologically one after the other and timing them well. This was the submission of Wouter De Paepe.

Felix seems to have it all: a good job, a handsome fiancée, a stable life. But beneath that perfect image, something is brewing. One sleepless night, he receives a mysterious phone call. What follows is a hallucinatory journey through the city and his own mind.