According to the director, the dance-sequence was inspired by the opening sequence in Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000) in which drunken men act out planetary rotation in the form of a slow dance.
In the dance-sequence near the ending of the film, the balloons in the background, here serving as decoration for the unspecified festivities in which our heroes take part, are characters from a previous Joël Rabijns film, Balloon-men.