the Flatland Film Festival
September 25 - 27, 2008
A short film/video competition and film invitational
in the Firehouse Theatre
at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts
511 Ave. K, Lubbock, Texas


4th Annual FLATLAND FILM FESTIVAL

Saturday - 10:00am and 1:00pm

Competition Shorts - GROUP 2


The Cave: An adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay

Directed by: Michael Ramsey
03 min : 10 sec
An adaptation of Plato's, 'Allegory of the Cave' animated in clay.

the cave

Birds
Directed by: Mark Betancourt
17 min : 00 sec
“Birds” is a short film about old age, love, hallucination, jealousy, bravery, loneliness, redemption and kindness. It is the story of an older married couple finding the strength of their relationship amidst the onset of dementia. While often surreal, funny and absurd, the film is essentially about the work of love that people of all ages must do in order to keep what matters.

birds

Cantata in C Major (James W. Johnson Award - $500.00)
Directed by: Ronnie Cramer
07 min : 30 sec
Six-hundred-five film clips are assembled and used to create a piece of electronic music.

cantata in C major

FutureCop 2010
Directed by: Matt Kelley
07 min : 08 sec
Rex Merryweather, an involuntary time traveling private investigator, unravels a mystery involving a dame, a secret package and the murder of his brother.

Stuck
Directed by: Bruce A. Block
10 min : 53 sec
While stuck in an elevator, two people discover the most intimate things about each other...that anything can happen.

Stuck

Looking Good
Directed by: Ben Powell
20 min : 00 sec
Glen Thompson isn't your normal eveyday heir to a pressure washing dynasty. This pool boy has a passion for greater things. He aspires to be the greatest country singer to ever come out of the Mississippi Delta.

Looking Good

I Love You I Love You I Love You
Directed by: Mikey Reyes
04 min : 00 sec
A man gets a second chance at life only to find out the harsh realities of the future.

i love you i love you

Strife of Tongues
Directed by: Michael David Perkins

11 min : 30 sec
A dense re-telling of the creation of the world and the subsequent restlessness of a species bent on its own destruction.

Strife of Tongues

 

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