FEATURE FILM

Flat Daddies function at the intersection of what can be imaged and imagined. For children and their families the imaged “reinforcement” is meant to provide a seamless visual transition between the endpoints of deployment.

The life-sized portraits become flattened bodies turning fathers from images into objects of affection. The image-memory is held in place but when everyday life comes to a standstill how does one picture the tensions and fears that surface when talking about death, loss or desperate times?

Cut out and pasted onto a familiar backdrop of the American home: Flat Daddy is no longer merely a sign, nor is it simply a fleshed out incarnation of one who is missing; Rather, it is suspended in between, deployed in a fractured state. The personification of war itself breathes with its own ubiquitous imagination, coloring with unfamiliar lines an altogether different picture.

Still Here NTSC/Color

Documentary

74minutes

Shining Sea Productions LLC

Copyright 2009

LOCATIONS FILMED

ALABAMA

Kelly, Alex and Lake Black

ARKANSAS

Ginny Adams

CALIFORNIA

Sherri, Mike and Shane Hutton

Michael and Michael-Alexander Little

Pat and Ken Schurman

Derek Fly

Virginia, Nicci, Sandra and Ryley Tallman

COLORADO

Jessica, Faith and Tyler Lundstrom

Sally and Cassandra Webster

Elaine Dumler

CONNECTICUT

Sandra, Louisa and Lucas Pearl

GEORGIA

Alaina and Savannah McDonald

KENTUCKY

Tammie, David and Michael Henderson

Marcella Gibson

LOUISIANA

Kathy and Sterlin Tatum

MAINE

Barbara Claudel

MICHIGAN

Nicole, Samantha, Ryan and Alyson Cadotte

MINNESOTA

Laura and Emma Cloose

Stacey, Lukas, Morgan, Ethan and Adam Bielke

MISSISSIPPI

Adrian, Ranae, Taylor, Gracie and Haley Caldwell

Calvin and Rakeshei Robinson

Samantha Wade

Holly, Madeline and Taylor Boyd

Miranda and Drew Goddard

Connie, Cailee Beth and Cora Yeilding

NORTH DAKOTA

Cindy Sorenson and Sarah Bruschwein

NEW JERSEY

Rhonda, Caroline, Trisha and Haley Dring

OHIO/SFC GRAPHICS

Eric Crockett

Gretchen Roundtree

Ryan Straube

Thomas Clark

Ryan Hertzfeld

TEXAS

Tammie, Luke and Cole Warren

Ashley and Logan Klein

Carey, Jacob, Rebekah, Stephen, Abigail

and Daniel Quick

UTAH

Amaria, Creighton, Logan, Cassidy and McCall Scovil

VERMONT

Elizabeth, Oliver, Abigail and Ethan Roy

WASHINGTON

Allison, Ethan and Esther Buckholtz

Theresa and Kaitlyn Chelberg

PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, CAMERA, SOUND, EDITOR

SUZANNE MEJEAN

MUSIC

HENRY WOLFE GUMMER AND OLIVER NEWELL

POST PRODUCTION/ON-LINE SUPERVISOR

LISA SCHOENBERG

SOUND MIX

CRAIG SMITH