Stage Four [Best Experimental Short Film - Award Winner]

Soundtrack: "Genetically Modified" - Orka Veer "Stage Four" is an American Experimental Short Film. All writing, acting, editing, and cinematography by Ryan Tidrick; composed music is the chillwave electronic music of Orka Veer, independently released as the track "Genetically Modified"). Completed in 2006, the film was screened at many festivals in the northwestern United States and took home the award for 'Best Experimental Film' at the Lake2Sound Film Festival in Seattle, WA (June 2007). SYNOPSIS: As a perceptive young man stumbles through four stages of an intensifying existential depression, the blindsided subtext of the world around him begins to illuminate the true disconnected nature of his spiritually-deformed and socially-isolated world; a nation addicted to media and technology, bearing an adolescent generation raised and educated by the internet. Slipping down the dismal spire of mental instability, he reluctantly advances through each stage toward inevitable self-destruction.