I only watched ‘Blade’ recently and I couldn’t believe I had never seen it before. We don’t make films like this anymore and I hope I can revive it one day. The fashion, the martial arts, the grunge, the vampires, the music. It’s a film I wish I had made and it inspired me from the second I saw it.

‘La Haine’ is the black and white reference. It is a mirror to society that still upholds today. Extremely gripping, and on a storytelling level maybe one of the most impactful films I have ever seen.

Pierre Debusschere (and Nick Knight) shaped me as a director more than probably anyone else. Throughout film school, I looked at Pierre Debusschere’s work more than anyone else. It showed me the possibilities of what being a ‘director’ means and drew me to fashion filmmaking, art, and curation. Whenever I watch ‘I KSTTSWLLT I,’ it just reminds me of this passion I felt when I saw it first, of the journey that I felt was in front of me and it makes me feel warm and happy about directing to this day. He was, and is, quite simply my idol.

‘Blade Runner’ is the answer I give when people ask me what my favourite film of all time is. The underlying themes of humanity, what it means to be human, the sharp critique of capitalism, the plato’s cave allegory. Combine this with Harisson Ford, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, the beyond this world cinematography, the score, the production design. The extreme close up of the eye in the opening sequence may well be the moment that gave me my lifelong obsession with the extreme close-up as a cinematic device.

‘EO’ is a film I find difficult to explain, but one that completely mesmerised me. The entire film follows a donkey, but at its heart, the film is about humanity, our relationship with nature and our own tragedies. What makes it so special is its incredible capacity for introspection; it holds a mirror up to your own life in a way that very few films manage. A truly beautiful piece of cinema.

An amazing film (franchise) overall but specifically talking about the ‘Boots, Boot, Boots’ sequence. I was gripped to my core. Sound design at its finest. One of the more exciting pieces of cinema in 2025 if you ask me.

When I first got into cinema, Dogme 95 felt like the purest form of filmmaking to me the epitome of what the medium could be. My own style has moved on quite a bit from those sober, stripped-to-the-core Dogme rules, but Danish cinema remains such a huge inspiration, particularly when it comes to storytelling. And I do still believe in the manifesto at its core. My love for more stylistic filmmaking has just grown a lot alongside that. ‘Festen’ in particular has had an enormous impact on me. The storytelling is masterful, and the dialogue represents a level of writing that I can only dream of reaching one day.