The Breath of Life
91 mins
After a near-fatal accident, filmmaker Guido van der Werve muses about the highs and lows of his own life as he endures a long process of recovery. Instead of a linear narrative, Nummer achttien is structured as a series of movements: it departs from the classical documentary to present us with a series of vignettes that combine past and present, existentialist despair and deadpan humour, reflection and creativity, the joys and pains of remembering and forgetting.
Guido van der Werve
Screenplay
Denise Janzée
Editor
Jan Jasper van Oord
Production Design
Danielle Guirguis
Producer
Guido van der Werve
Original Music Composer
Ben Geraerts
Director of Photography
Guido van der Werve
Director
Ruben van der Hammen
Editor