Your Spotify Wrapped as a fever dream identity crisis.
An experimental journey through a year in the life of the director, using his always playing playlist to cross the boundaries of fiction and documentary. Through scenes of both comedy and tragedy, realistic documentary footage and experimental sequences of the director's environment and daily life we get a sometimes estranging image of a young man and also an intriguing insight in his mindset and how this translates to the imagery on screen.
Direction
Seamless fiction-doc fusion with genuine vulnerability.
Editing
Music-driven cuts that turn daily life into rhythm.
Writing
Leo as alter ego blurs confession with performance art.
Director
Willem van der Zanden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Willem shot entirely on borrowed equipment across 12 months with zero budget, deleting scenes that didn't match his actual playlist.
The 45-minute runtime was deliberate: exactly one average commute, forcing viewers to consume his year in disposable time.
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