This is from a talk the three of us had after deciding to launch the website. It serves as an insight into who we are (except our real names) and what we endeavour to accomplish
PARADISE LOST
Now, I think we should say a few words about the reasons each of us had for deciding to work together in making this company.
PARADOX
I think I can say with high degree of certainty that we all feel provoked when exposed to the virulent kind of myth fabrication we experience as an immense pressure being exerted through all possible channels of communication.
We see that as an outright attack on our intellectual freedom of choice and perception of reality.
ПРИЗРАК
Yes, we respectfully disagree, not with the facts, but with the compulsory framing of facts.
We acknowledge a person’s right to arrive at a different picture of the world through diligent gathering of historical material and application of knowledge in interpretation.
PARADISE LOST
There is a history behind us as well.
Having our own production company have been a dream each one of us had pursued at least a handful of years starting from the beginning of this century. Not as a group since we have only known about each other for a couple of years.
PARADOX
We learned about each other that we differed in ambitions, but to our surprise we all faced the same obstacle.
Struggling to enter the entertainment industry or even trying to become independent production houses, we faced the pressure of political realities in western culture.
ПРИЗРАК
Either you toe the party line or you vow silently to disenfranchise yourself completely in the politicised climate of today.
PARADISE LOST
Yes, our frustration mounted over the years, and finally blossomed into acute depression, when reflecting upon the degree to which we have been willing to neuter ourselves in the pursuit of an honestly humble and harmless dream.
We had our utopias, I am willing to admit, and we wanted to portray them, with little understanding of our fellow man’s utopia. You can reproach us for that, I suppose. But compared to the sin of mass indoctrination taking place today, we were utterly harmless.
PARADOX
Even the basic tools of the industry will lead in two opposite directions: Senseless killing games/movies or “indie games/movies” meaning defanged and castrated.
We don’t desire to express any particular subversive opinion.
I’m simply talking about the expressing in art the full spectrum of human intellectual realisation.
PARADISE LOST
Breaking the pattern of intellectual trench warfare…
ПРИЗРАК
… Be at liberty to retell the story as individuals.
PARADOX
The pandemic started and we somehow ended up meeting in the real life. This was the point where we started to compare our development and failures.
ПРИЗРАК
We decided that the only way to run a business today on an independent level would be to see it primarily as a shared effort to face the world on an intellectual level more than anything else. You can’t have a business unless you have a stance. And you can’t have a stance unless you have a picture of the state of things.
PARADISE LOST
And that’s about the sum of things: The purpose of the group is first and foremost develop a hybrid between creating and countering the race to the bottom that social media driven polemic has become.