Who Is Arvid Pekon?
Title – Who is Arvid Pekon? / Original title – Kim jest Arvid Pekon? / Film by Patrik Eriksson / Cinematography by Maciej Twardowski / Genre: short fiction / Duration: 13 min. / Year of production: 2013 / Location: Poland / Based on a novel by Karin Tidbeck
Synopsis
Listening, approving, connecting. Deep beneath the city all communication is patched through the switchboard. Operator Arvid Pekon gets a disturbing request and starts playing a dangerous game. With reality falling apart, he soon finds himself questioning his very existence.
Who is Arvid Pekon? is a tale of identity and madness, set in the remnants of a distant 20th century.
Cast
Andrzej Mastalerz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arvid Pekon
Anna Moskal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Supervisor
Anna Seniuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subject 3426
Director’s biography
Patrik Eriksson (born 1978) is a student at PWSFTviT, The Polish National Film School in Lodz. "Who is Arvid Pekon?" is his writing and directing debut.
Note that...
...the film would not look the same without the help of guys from Ikonoskop...
and...
...that toghether with Martin Rath's "Arena" it will be
a part of "Young Cinema Competition" at 38th Gdynia Film Festival.
Still from Patrik Eriksson's "Who is Arvid Pekon?"
Still from Patrik Eriksson's "Who is Arvid Pekon?"
Confrontation between Arvid (Andrzej Mastalerz) and Supervisor (Anna Moskal) - photo by Ludwik Pruszkowski
Still from Patrik Eriksson's "Who is Arvid Pekon?"
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