The Paraclete is a highly visual, non linear short film produced as a
Master's Thesis at the University of Southern California School of
Cinema-Television; an award winning student film about the effects of the war in Bosnia by Velko Milosevich.
This is not your standard "Shoot Em Up" or "Student Film" but a very visually
rich drama showing the threat that deep rooted psychoses can have on an
individual and the team he is part of.
DVD creation sponsored by Magpul Industries.
Reviews-
“The Paraclete” is the single best student film we’ve ever seen, and could ever
hope to see. It is a story about childhood, homeland, the impossible loss of
both to violence, as well as the dreadful sweetness of memory, powerless to
bring back either. It is simultaneously delicate and violent, direct and
mysterious, convulsively felt, and absolutely original. The film’s story-telling
structure . . . has the eloquence of a sonnet.
-Tiare White & Camille Landau
“What They Don’t Teach You at Film School”
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So, what was it like? A haunting combination of imagery and sound. Realistic -
but surreal at the same time. I was thoroughly impressed. The attention to
detail was unnerving. Although the firearms use was a small part of the
on-screen time, it was some of the best "contact" that I have seen put on the
screen. No hokey BS. When the fire fight starts, it rolls into that frozen
series of microseconds that make up combat. Back in the city, as the cop goes
undercover in an investigation that unravels in the back seat of a car, the
sense of the inevitable violence grows until it just rolls off the screen at
you, then explodes in a shotgun/pistol fight at close range. Dynamic stuff, not
the kind of crap you see on television.
Dan Shea, Technical Editor
Small Arms Review June 1998
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The Paraclete is an extremely intellectual movie that has Hollywood's best
dramas of the past year beat and with only thirty minutes of film. As a supplier
of firearms and special effects to the film industry, I was impressed with the
realistic combat scenes. And, as someone that is half Ukrainian by descent, and
in his 30s, I really appreciated the Slavic-family-in-America storyline and the
flashbacks to the 1970s.
This is a remarkable film that must have many producers jealous. Buy It!
Vincent DeNiro
Exotic Arms for Motion Pictures
