Media Arts Fellow
Miami-Dade, Florida

Clifton Childree is a filmmaker/artist who in 2003 completed his six-year feature film project, 'The Flew', about a mechanical man in a Victorian carnival shooting gallery and his love for a broken down ride.  Cashiers du Cinemart Magazine named 'The Flew' as one of the top 50 Midnight Movies made in the last 10 years.

His most recent projects include 'She Sank on Shallow Bank', an animated/live action dance film and ‘Something Awful’, a vintage slapstick comedy gore film co-commissioned by the Miami Performing Arts Center and the Miami Light Project for the 2006 Here and Now Festival.  Clifton swears he was born in the late 1800s.

Work Samples

• She Sank on Shallow Bank (excerpt), 2:16, 2005
• Something Awful (excerpt), 2:23, 2006

Related Links

• http://www.theflew.com/