The Flute | Heartbroken Man has Housemate Problems in this SXSW Midnight Short

Fleeing a long term relationship, a young man seeks refuge with his best friends. After discovering their strange instruments, he'll learn the bachelor lifestyle is not as sweet as it sounds.

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🎵 The Flute
Dir. Nick Roney
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The SXSW Midnight screening is notorious for unearthing some unforgettable short films. From watching Oscar-winning directors getting far too close to witnessing the tale of a girl with an anus for a mouth, if you’re a regular attendee of this highlight of the festival circuit you would have seen it all. The 2023 line-up was no different, as the audience was immersed in worlds overrun with mind controlling parasites and vibrator obsessions, however, when the lights came up in the Alamo Drafthouse there was only one film on everyone’s lips – Nick Roney’s The Flute.

The story of a man desperately trying to get over his ex, whilst also trying to navigate his new housemates rather unusual “habits”, Roney’s short is a film that truly pushes its “mature” label to its limits. Things get pretty freaky throughout The Flute’s 10-minute run-time. It’s one of those film’s where you’re desperate to talk about what happens, but also don’t want to spoil the surprise. Some could argue that the short’s title hints at what’s to come, but anyone who’s predicting the surreal situation at the heart of this film has a very creative imagination. - S/W Curator, Rob Munday
FULL REVIEW: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2023/05/12/the-flute/

*Cast & Crew*

Directed by Nick Roney
Produced by Ryland Burns and Brendan Garrett
Executive Producers: Daniel Bergman, Blake Powell, Chris Ripley and Andrew Freedman.
Cinematography by Chris Ripley
Music by Gabe Lubowe
Production Design by Tye Whipple
Edited by Antonio Gómez-Pan
Make Up Effects by Chelsea Delfino
Sound Design by Jan Bezouska
Costume by Paola Erazun
Written by Nick Roney & Ed Leer
Titles by Aaron Lowell

Starring:
Dan Carr
David Finch
Ed Leer

With

Maya Sommer
Stephanie Kerbis
Joseph Carnegie
Bobby Moser
Mike Merchant
Eliha McNally
Matthew Jehle
Zain Assad

Assistant Director: Hannah Baker
Gaffer: Arjun Prakash
Key Grip: Doug Frerichs
Grips: Alan Michnoff, Cooper Finn
Sound Mixer: Justin Fox
MFX Assistant: Malina Stearns
1st AC: Brad Wilder, Brian White
2nd AC: Milana Burdette
Steadicam: Bill Hunt
Lead Man: Hank Henry
Art Assistant: Warner Hiatt
Production Assistant: Charles Kinder
Style Assistant: Maya Sommer
Photographer: Ariel Fisher

The band: Jill Petricca, Gregg Moore, Nicholas Dominic Talvola, Jolianne Einem, Maya Hergenrader, Fiona Ryder

VFX Leads: Wes Cronk, Erik Ferguson
VFX Supervisor : Ben Kadie, Yury Ryabushko
VFX Producers: Ekaterina Averina, Aleksandr Gorokhov
Concept artist: Konstantin Radchikov
Tracking: Petr Shtanko
Layout: Artem Kirilyuk
Modeling and texture: Sergey Kudryavtsev, Alexey Plosskiy
Lighting: Anna Lebedeva, Ildar Shirgazin
Compositing: Alexy Zhurin, Alisa Zakhovaeva
VFX Editors: Maxim Pasyutin, Maxim Potopyak
Pipeline and technical support: Nikita Glukhov, Igor Zaytsev

Supervising Sound Editor: Jan Bezouska
Dialogue Editor: Taylor Westerfield
Foley mixer Anna Jesenská
Foley artist Radovan Ekrt
Foley recorded at Soundsquare
Re-Recording Mixer: Jan Bezouska
Mixed at Pace Pictures

Produced by Stink Films and Antidote Films

Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers.

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