"Spindletop: The Beginning" is a period piece short film about the "The Prophet of Spindletop," Pattillo Higgins, and his mischievous antics as a young teenager. Spindletop refers to the 1901 oil gusher in Beaumont which would change the economy of Texas and the Gulf Coast forever.
A restless young woman ships off to fight an interstellar war, only to struggle with the effects of being cut off from her home by both time and space.
Special beings from another universe come to Earth with the power to help people relive their happiest memories. In the 90s, a pregnant woman meets one of them, while decades later, the son she gave up for adoption searches for his mother.
Imogen, now in her late 30’s, uses the REVERIE time travel therapy system to go back to a pivotal time in her teenage years to try to either change her past trauma or heal her present self through a better understanding of her past.
A career-oriented woman struggles to keep her past trauma from manifesting itself and distorting her reality. Is she really here? IS this really happening?
Isolation explores loneliness, grief, loss, and the struggles of mental health. All within a pursuit of understanding one's purpose. It's a coalescence of one's trauma and working through it while performing at a high level.