Splice & Weave
Films with Heart.
Splice & Weave LLC is versatile in its ability to create narrative, documentary, and experimental films. Splice & Weave LLC owns rights to the films, Velvet Citizen and Navigating THRU.
The name Splice and Weave is inspired by analog film. Lindsay Taylor Jackson began her early film career by learning photography, developing negatives, and printing 35mm in several dark room courses. Later, she shot on 16mm. She worked with the medium of 16mm, projectors, hand manipulated film, and even cut films on the Steenbeck. When she can, she still works with actual film to this day. When an edit is made, film strips are taped together and holes for the sprockets are punched. This is called "splicing" film. "Weave" is multifaceted. In order to project the film, it is weaved through a projector. Jackson loves working with tangible materials of all sorts, often weaving physical layers together. In the end, all of these mediums come together so the voices and images captured can weave a story.
"It's okay to not have all of the answers right now...but you must keep trying."
- Jonathan Schwartz
Velvet Citizen
This documentary feature film is the extraordinary story of Jaroslav and his fearless effort to pursue his lifelong dream of sailing around the world. He has spent over forty years building his boat by hand in his backyard in the landlocked country of former Czechoslovakia. Forty years ago when he started building his boat, he was living under a harsh communist rule which allowed him very little sailing to foreign waters. He still had the hope of someday gaining the freedom to sail in these prohibited oceans. He continued to build his boat and earn the miles of his captain’s license little by little during the one time of year citizens were allowed to sail in certain designated locations.
The Velvet Revolution of 1989 was the fall of Communism which allowed the citizens of former Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) to gain long lost freedoms. Jaroslav would continue to build his boat for many more years, but with a renewed independence of reaching the once forbidden waters. Follow our film through this beautiful story about hope, the journey to freedom, the philosophical wisdom shared with aging, and the perseverance against all odds to reach his lifelong dream of unlimited sailing.
This documentary feature film is the extraordinary story of Jaroslav and his fearless effort to pursue his lifelong dream of sailing around the world. He has spent over forty years building his boat by hand in his backyard in the landlocked country of former Czechoslovakia. Forty years ago when he started building his boat, he was living under a harsh communist rule which allowed him very little sailing to foreign waters. He still had the hope of someday gaining the freedom to sail in these prohibited oceans. He continued to build his boat and earn the miles of his captain’s license little by little during the one time of year citizens were allowed to sail in certain designated locations.
The Velvet Revolution of 1989 was the fall of Communism which allowed the citizens of former Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) to gain long lost freedoms. Jaroslav would continue to build his boat for many more years, but with a renewed independence of reaching the once forbidden waters. Follow our film through this beautiful story about hope, the journey to freedom, the philosophical wisdom shared with aging, and the perseverance against all odds to reach his lifelong dream of unlimited sailing.
Navigating THRU
Every year, thousands of people attempt a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, but only 1 in 4 will be successful. Of those who are successful, just 25% are women. Navigating THRU follows women attempting a 2016 thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail and discovering what it takes to become "the 25% of the 25%". Told from a third person perspective (a unique deviation from most first person perspective hiking documentaries), Navigating THRU aims to explore the everyday struggles any thru-hiker faces as well as what it means to be a woman on and off the trail.
Off the trail society, especially as portrayed by the media, has high expectations for physical beauty while having low expectations for physical capability when it comes to women. However, on the trail these expectations are inverted. Navigating THRU hopes to highlight this inversion and send a positive and powerful message to women, "You can challenge yourself to do so much more than the world expects of you."
With Navigating THRU, we hope to inspire women of all ages to be adventurous, self-reliant, and confident in both physically demanding situations and everyday life.