Novak

Novak is a film about how each person builds their own view of the world and how, in extreme cases, this can lead to full-blown paranoia and madness. It follows the character of Dr. Nikola Novak, a modern-day Don Quixote who devotes his life to building a better world, setting the bar so high that he is doomed to fail. My goal is to show someone with a messiah complex as a three-dimensional human being. In the film, Dr. Novak keeps restructuring reality in his head to live up to the expectations he has set for himself, in short to avoid getting hurt. In this respect, he is not really different from any of us. We may like to think of ourselves as rational beings, but our worldviews are more biased by our emotional needs than we would like to admit. Also, by feeling for a character like Dr. Novak, my hope is that the audience will come out of the cinema thinking that we need visionaries like him, no matter how crazy they may seem. They might just be our only hope in this mad world.