Student films
Haunted by a collapsing relationship, a young man journeys through a dreamlike subconscious landscape where a Snow Woman consumes his memories, forcing him to choose between erasing the pain of love or returning to reality and confronting the emotions he has tried to escape.
In a near-apocalyptic future, a son discovers the unsettling truth about his father’s creation and embarks on a reckless mission against his mother to reconnect with him in his catatonic state.
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Hello! I am Thomas (Tom, Tommy, doesn't matter as long it's a form of Tom) Spence, nice to meet you! I started my filmmaking career taking a screenwriting & video production class in high school, making simple class project videos like PSA's and music video's. I was always confused on what I wanted to do with my life, as most classes in school felt like busywork and didn't take much interest, but that first video production class changed everything. For the first time, I partook in class discussions constantly, and didn't groan when the teacher announced a project is being assigned.
Jokes aside, that is when I found out what I wanted to do with my life. In college, I enrolled at the New York Film Academy in Manhattan, with a BFA in Filmmaking. There I learned more than just writing and taking a camera and shooting, I learned the ins and outs of every position one can be when a film is being made. During my time at NYFA, I wrote, directed, and, produced two short films for my capstone, "Best Seller", and "Scam Likely", which are being submitted to festivals.
I also have been a background actor for Amazon Prime shows like "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and "Shelter", you can see me if you pause the show exactly at a specific frame!
The intention of LUCID was to explore the proliferation of digital media that has cultivated an era where the lines between reality and fiction are increasingly blurred. Though we turn to social media to connect, it ultimately estranges us from ourselves and others and to reality itself. The purpose of LUCID is to allegorically represent this disconnect through the medium of lucid dreaming in order to expose the disintegration of the authentic self within a hypermediated world. My film would be suited to audiences who have a suspicion that the contours of existence extend beyond the dimensions of an iPhone screen, who are painfully aware that we are, in the words of Postman, “amusing ourselves to death.”
