The reality we know is only one of countless possible worlds.

Through stories, art, and imagination, we can step beyond the boundaries of our own existence and explore other realities. Some are discovered within the world around us. Others are built from imagination. Yet all of them offer a glimpse of something greater than ourselves.

BØCKRIDER exists to make those worlds visible.

DAAN THOMAS PODT

a.k.a. BØCKRIDER

BASED ON folklore

BØCKRIDER isn’t just a name, it’s a fragment of folklore, pulled out of the dark forests and misty fields of the south of the Netherlands.

It comes from the legend of de Bokkerijders: the “goatriders” who were said to travel through the night sky on the backs of horned beasts. Outlaws. Spirits. Rebels who slipped past the edge of reality.

People claimed they saw them everywhere.
On rooftops.
Across borders.
In places they couldn’t possibly be.

But maybe the truth is simpler:
Maybe they didn’t fly, maybe they just moved in too many ways, with too many faces, too many roles for one world to track.

I work as many things, director, photographer, DOP, artist, whatever the idea demands. I don’t sit still. I don’t fit into one title. I move through mediums like the Bokkerijders moved through the night: fast, free, uncatchable.