BARKAS — Creative visual studio

BARKAS is the creative visual studio founded by Victor D. Ponten. Its name derives from the fictional football club FC BARKAS from Victor’s feature film Catacombe. With our name we honor Hannibal Barkas, who took his warrior elephants across the Alps to attack the Romans during the Second Punic War and while doing so minted the adage Aut Viam Inveniam, Aut Faciam. Which is Latin for: “We’ll either find a way or make one.” Hence, it makes a proper name for a football club. Or a creative visual studio.

Being a creative visual studio means we nurture visual projects into the world. And just like no kid will be raised the same way, every project takes a different approach. So sometimes we’re film makers, sometimes we’re writers, sometimes we’re artists, sometimes we’re creative directors, sometimes we’re showrunners, sometimes we’re producers, sometimes we’re story editors, sometimes we’re a mirror and sometimes we’re all of those things at the same time.

But whatever we are at any given moment, we’ll always be dedicated to our four guiding principles: quality (I, II), simplicity (I, II, III), detail (I, II, III) and boldness (I, II, III, IV).