About
Short, Eradescape, 2008
Short, Platonic, 2007
Short, Woodcutter's Joy, 2005
Short, Let Go, 2004
Short, Matinee, 2003
Short, Airhead, 2002
Short, Running Man, 2000
Title Seq, Iti Pounamu
Music Video, Greg Johnson
Commercial, Lycra
Commercial, Music festival
Showreel, On Air Branding
Title: PLATONIC
Writer/Director: Arvid Eriksson
Cast: Susie Paterno & David Lumby
Production Year: 2007
Duration: 8min
Kristy and Dan have been good friends for a long time. But he is secretly in love with her and she enjoys the attention. Modern life is transient and changeable. People are constantly on the lookout for a better deal or new quick fix. Spoiled for choice there are no resolutions. To the backdrop of a busy city Platonic quietly captures the mood and palette of problems in a modern urban relationship and taps into five meetings where one question is asked - when does a friendship become a relationship? It's all between the lines.
In Platonic I set out to make a film with a minimal but precise expression, where the narrative and dramatic tension is developing in what's happening between the lines. To develop a fluid delivery the scenes were improvised, I only scripted the subtext. However, to give the film a structure each scene has a natural cut-off point where the action or dialogue is disrupted by an external factor.