The Breath of Life

After a nearfatal 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