Bio /Arthur Ericsson

BIO / ARTHUR ERICSSON

During his second year of college, Arthur regularly rode his motorcycle 65 miles to Los Angeles to watch obscure foreign films — an experience that inspired him to study filmmaking and begin telling stories of his own. After graduating from California State University, Long Beach, he spent two years working in Hollywood before seeking a more meaningful creative life. In the years since, he has been a vegetarian restaurant owner, environmental activist, rowing coach, and nonprofit director.

Arthur has since returned to filmmaking with renewed purpose, combining decades of life experience with modern digital tools. Drawing on the existential worlds of Kafka and Camus and the enduring weight of Greek mythology, he writes and directs minimalist films — spare, slow-paced, and set in stark, pared-down worlds — that explore authority, absurdity, perseverance, and the human condition.

In the past three years, Arthur has created four films and written eighteen short film scripts. Breathing Deeply, a documentary, and Malorum, a narrative short, were made with his Intermediate Film student team at California State University, Sacramento. The Peddler and Single Distance were entirely his own productions, made with the support of many friends.