PLATO'S PHAEDRUS
Col. 11 min - Australia 2006

ABSTRACT [from the film]
This project is the first of a long series of experiences through the main developments of philosophy. And it is with love that it begins. With love as the only way to combine the two sides of the soul: reason and need. And with metaphysics as the only way to make explicit and self conscious the implicit and subconscious ideal of the people.
Referring to the Greek mythology, consequently acquired and reviewed but the Latin culture, the world could be simply divided into two main spheres: the mortal one in which we can have access, and the immortal one, lived by gods and in which no man can have access. The relationship within the two spheres is extremely rigid: a mortal being can never become immortal, nor it is possible for him to achieve a visual relation with the gods , etc… And from that comes the consideration of faith as a pure decision and control made by the divinities to the mortal world. However, elements were built to make an exception: Eros, also known as Cupids or Amore. He is the one who was born from the relationship within a mortal woman and a divine being and therefore condemned to live in the middle within the mortal and the immortal sphere. For his nature Eros is not a god, but a demon. And he is the only one who can cover the conjunction within those two words, otherwise inaccessible. But he is also the symbol of love, and it is at this point that Plato reveals his definition of the metaphysical world (READ MORE).

CREDITS
written, directed and edited by GIOVANNI LORUSSO
producer, costumes and make-up JERRIE REDMAN-LLOYD
first assistant director, unit manager, clapper BENJAMIN ARTHUR
sound editors DYLAN VAN DYKE, GIOVANNI LORUSSO
executive producers SALVATORE NICOLA LORUSSO, SYDNEY FILM SCHOOL
with SIMON CHANDLER, KRISTINA OLSEN, BEN ARTHUR, PAUL JOHNSON
a k11production in collaboration with Sydney Film School 2006

RECOGNITIONS
Awards:
2006 - Best Film Award (Sydney College of the Arts 2006, AUSTRALIA), Plato's Phaedrus
2007 - Best Experimental Film (ATOM Award, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA), Plato's Phaedrus
2007 - Australian Film Commission (AFC) official selection, Plato's Phaedrus
Nominations:
2007 - BRNO 16mm, Short Film Award, CZECH REPUBLIC, Plato's Phaedrus
2007 - SAN PAULO Short Film Festival, BRAZIL, Plato's Phaedrus
2007 - TISCALI Short Film Festival, ITALY, Plato's Phaedrus