At Perfect Splice, we realise that filmmaking is not a job, it’s a way of life. Some days we curse ourselves for not becoming bankers, but deep down we know we wouldn’t have it any other way. Whether documentary, fiction, or experimental films, shorts or features, we tell stories we care about. With each film we venture into the unknown in an attempt to explore and challenge the boundaries of what we know and feel. Films are our way of making sense of the most senseless of things - life.
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'It's stories that make us human'.
The life paths of my twin brother and I started to diverge at an early age. Already at 8 years old, my brother spoke competently about black holes, while my, more modest, interests generally revolved around solving the next quest in ‘Monkey Island’. He was interested in science and facts and I loved being transported into weird and wonderful worlds.
“Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.”
Once adults, my brother predictably slipped into astrophysics and academia, while I switched my allegiance from computer games to films. I was absolutely in love with my work, but could never shake the feeling that it was a bit trite and self-absorbed compared to my brother’s job. He was trying to understand the universe, pushing the limits of human knowledge and coming up with science that had concrete benefits to our species. I, on the other hand, was just telling stories.
Be that as it may, I persevered. Working on historical documentaries, I began to appreciate that history is simply a story that is constantly re-written, distorted and reinvented. Now this realisation was not particularly radical or scary, but it soon dawned on me that just as the present distorts the past, the past also shapes the present. So maybe the present is also just a story? And what about my brother’s work? What are scientific theories but stories that make predictions about the world around us?
“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”
Like in Sartre’s ‘Nausea’, everything around me started to dissolve into stories. I struggled with this new view of reality until I finally understood that everything is a story, precisely because they are the one tool that evolution gave us for understanding the world around us. We collect basic data from the world around us and then turn that data into abstractions. We then arrange these abstractions into complex constructs, that represent the world around us.
In the end it seems that, literally: it’s stories that makes us human.
So what better way is there to explore our humanity than through filmmaking, an art and craft dedicated to telling stories?
- Aleksandar Nikolic, company director.