SKIDLOVE Trailer Video

Director/Producer/Screenplay/Editor: Ryan Arnold

Bikes, art, fights, parties, trains, truth, morals, ethics, respect, honesty, blood, love, lust, perversion, revulsion, guilt, pussy, cocks, stillness, youth, debt, revenge, horror, romance.

Skidlove as in dark, gritty, infested with lies. A young artist, Rennie, meets Paige, a young woman at a party. She quickly becomes his girlfriend in spite of the mystery that surrounds her. How does she make her living? What is she hiding in her bedroom and why wont she let anyone in? The love- struck painter tries everything in his power to understand what she refuses to acknowledge.

This film is an unsettling look at the beginning and the end of an anti-romance between two twenty - something hipsters living in Toronto. Through images, some of them graphic bordering on gory, we discover the secret garden of Paiges boss and clients of his small business. With its B-movie aesthetic, fragmented story line and experimentation with the use of natural light, Skidlove paints a grim urban portrait, the sordid flipside of a story that could have been happily-ever-after.