INTERVIEW
Silvano Perozic - INTERVIEW

Silvano Perozic is an artist with a certain career, a painter with many solo and collective paintings exhibition, and a musician from his youth period, who started with saxophone and continued with electric guitar and keyboard, with some mostly instrumental music officially released, Silvano is a award-winning short film director too.
When did you decide you wanted to be an director?
When I was a young boy at the age of six or seven, as a child, playing with other children between two houses, making something like a theatre, and sometimes more like a cinema with a space both for the audience and the space for the stage levelled a bit higher than a place for the audience, and in our games, I was mostly an actor rarest audience at that theatre.
How did your family react?
They bought me when I was 11 years old an amateur Eumig 8mm camera with accessories and a lot of diverse colour filters.
It was a very good camera, capable of double or more expositions, returning film tape back and forth, capability for fade in or fade out with several film speeds, with a possibility to choose between 1 to 7 frames for second or 8,16, 24 even 32 frames per second, enough for some basic slow motion or time laps effect, perfect for stop animation. I learned a lot with that camera.
Do you have a Muse or a Role Model?
Yes, many, it will be unfair to mention somebody and forget not to mention everybody who had some influence or impact on me as a painter or filmmaker or musician.

Who's your biggest fan?
My mother, audience, offcourse, people who like my paintings, music or short films, women, and friends.
What brings you inspiration the most?
I’ve been a professional painter for a long time, and a musician too, I had to be inspired, and I must be. If I am not inspired enough, I must start with a sketch working on unimportant parts, no matter if is a painting or film or music, and after some time, inspiration comes.
Which actor or director would you like to work with?
With lot of them
Have you ever seen a film that was better than the book?
I saw some fantastic book adaptations, for example, Shakespeare’s "The Tempest "
What's the movie that taught you the most?
There are a lot of films that I like and taught me much, "Red"-Krzysztof Kieslovski,"Apocalypse Now" - director's cut,Stanley Kubrick whose every film is completely different as genre one from each other "Mulholland Drive ", some Sergio Leones films are very spectacular cinematic, classic as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Bernardo Bertolucci, Michael Cimino,Orson Welles….
About your artistic career, have you ever had the desire to quit everything?
No, as I am older, I like and want to work more and more and more accurately with more details, sense, etc, want to stay honestly behind my art.
On set what excites you the most?
Depending on the film, I am an author of the music for my films too, film montage is mostly my preferred part.
For my awarded experimental short film "Q1", your festival awarded me too for that film, I made all graphics on the most basic Windows paint program only, Windows paint is not the right tool for making films, but I did it and won awards for the Best inspirational film, the Best experimental film and Best sound design award at several film festivals.
There was no classical set, just me, the mouse, and the computer, at the second stage musical instruments.
And what scares you the most?
Time, I have so many projects that are waiting to be finished, unfinished feature short films, unfinished animated films, a few music videos, a lot of sketches, a lot of unfinished paintings, and a lot of unfinished and not mixed and well or satisfactory recorded music.

What's your next project?
A short film about coincidences if coincidence exists in a causative consequential way, if everything is not predestinated as some theories point out, some theories as String theory said that everything is conected,other theories said that the whole space, cosmos is just chaos, with no sense or conection anywhere .That’s why Art is good for.
You can steal the career of an artist you really admire, who do you choose?
I have my own way, my life, I’ve been a professional painter for a long time, a musician, even professional Dj , and a composer as well. I could say that I know something about cinema, film and making films, I had, and I have reached artistic life.
Offcourse, it would be a real pleasure to play live 3rd guitar with the Rolling Stones, act the second role in some well-known film director movie or even carry cameras or cables on his set, I like learning.
An actor/director/screen player is made of....
Love for that what he is doing, patience, desire, nerves, courage to experiment, an open mind to accelerate and accept rationally new ideas and caused situations, fanatic sometimes, half of the day to have in mind what he is working .
For you Cinema is....
For me personally, Cinema, in short, is paintings, music, and literature together - symbiosis or product of the above-mentioned parts, greatest symphony sometimes .
Do you think Black and white movies have a powerful impact?
Yes, as a black and white television, similar as black and white photography, "Citizen Kane", "The Third Man", "The Thin Red Line ", Hitchcock, Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and even "Gone with the Wind " was originally made in black and white, there are many fabulous fantastic excellent black and white movies. Paintings mostly start from a black and white pencil sketch.
Have you ever dreamed of winning an Oscar?
No, never.
Do you think you're gonna win it?
Who knows, everything is possible.
