Căpcăun (Doghead) is a 10–12 minute experimental film following a single subject as they slowly transform into the căpcăun, a dog-headed figure from Romanian folklore. Using raw digital footage, hand-drawn animation, shifting shadows, and collapsing soundscapes, the film shows this transformation. Through grain, double exposures, whispers, and infrasonic rumble, it explores the idea that you become what you think about: the monster grows out of attention itself; he becomes what you feed him.

The central concept of Căpcăun (Doghead) is rooted in the idea that “we become what we think about.” Psychological frameworks support this; thought informs perception, which guides emotion, motivates action, and ultimately shapes individual experience. In this way, the mind is both origin and architect. The căpcăun, a dog-headed figure from Romanian folklore, becomes a metaphor for the darker currents of thought: intrusive fears, obsessions,
and inner voices that demand to be fed. My tagline for the film, "He only eats what you feed him," is a reminder that what we nurture within ourselves grows until it defines us. The film explores this process cinematically, staging the internal struggle as both personal and collective. The monster isn’t meant to be taken literally; the individual doesn’t actually turn into some ogre-like figure but is a metaphor for how destructive thoughts take shape and
feed off of us. In that sense, the film asks viewers to confront their own mental patterns and to recognize that the monsters within aren’t separate from the world we inhabit but part of what forms it.