Nick Cave’s last three albums have deeply influenced me, especially after watching ‘One More Time with Feeling’, an experimental black-and-white film about recording ‘Skeleton Tree’ after the death of his son. In this fragment, he recites his poem ‘Steve McQueen’, about the strange act of life. The style of his poem is beautiful — chaotic and intuitive. It might best be described as a searching delirium that recognizes the charm of its own downfall.

For some (lame) reason, I’ve never seen the actual film, but this opening scene has always been a HUGE inspiration. In it, a weird man uses a group of drunks to visualize the solar system. It’s a crazy choreography, symbolizing life’s vastness and darkness. For me, the scene is a tribute to the elusive feeling of what it means to be alive — a scene that shows that even after the darkest moments, the sun will shine again. But for you, it might mean something entirely different. That’s what I believe good art should be: a kind of Rorschach test where your personal drama finds room to breathe.

Ever since my dear friend and stylist Anna Claassen pointed me to this music video, I’ve been in love with it. I slap myself with it every time I notice I’m trying to make my ideas too difficult again (I never succeed).

Whenever I’m down, I watch random scenes from ‘Tree of Life.’ It reminds me that even when everything feels lost, beauty remains. I believe this inspired the storm scene in the ‘WY’ music video I shot a few years ago.

One of the best scenes ever — it hurts.

This short film led Wes Anderson to make the feature version of ‘Bottle Rocket’. I keep revisiting it because of its narrative freedom — it defies logic on paper but works beautifully. A personal reminder that intuition is key.

Radiohead invited artists to create vignettes for ‘Identikit’. Yorgos Lanthimos directed one where Denis Lavant pretends to eat a sandwich in a café — iconic, and it makes me jealous.

Filmmaking is impractical work — you have to love it. It’s a constant flow of problems, the funnel where all ideas must pass. In ‘Hearts of Darkness,’ a documentary on the making of ‘Apocalypse Now,’ Coppola is shown battling chaos in the Filipino jungle: Martin Sheen has a heart attack, a typhoon wrecks the set, and the crew spirals due to drugs. The absurdity and beauty of filmmaking.