S.W.A.P.

Loved this film! Great acting, costume, set design. Felt like it would have fit well in the multiverse genre too.

With an absolutely killer soundtrack here that felt inspired by the best work of Ludwig Goransson, Lamps and Plants might have made the biggest year on improvement I've seen in this competition in many a year, as a door warping clean up crew member from the 'I.C.A' goes rogue through no fault of their own and reality gets shattered. Wow.

Simply phenomenal costuming and cinematography on display here, with marvelous lighting flourishes used at just the right time to provide the ebbs and flows of a film that set out to take as a viewer on a journey and makes you strap yourself in for the ride.

Your lead actor did a wonderful job portraying their confused, frustrated and desperate situation with body language given they were in a full SWAT-type getup for almost the entirety of the affair, meaning the team had to move beyond facial expressions to sell emotion, and they 100% got this on screen.

With nods to MONSTERS INC and SCOOBY DOO via way of PHANTASM the fan service to some of my favourite media as a viewer was enchanting.

Now I'm not going to forget to heap praise on the sound design, which flourised particularly in the interactions with the help desk representative. It felt that the sound was authentic and coming from exactly the right place on screen every time a voice came into the headpiece.

Edit was also super tight.

For mine I actually loved how this could have fit under so many genre umbrellas this year (Impossible Situation also comes to mind). I think the 2 very minor quibbles I have were the helpdesk set design not quite matching the quality of the standard of the rest of the film, and I'm dwelling on the ending and whether it was too open-ended. But given you basically fleshed out a fully fledged original sci fi concept in 5 minutes I'm more than prepared to let that slide. Standard will be exceptional if this is not in the national final this year.

Story: 4.5/5
Technical: 5/5
Elements: 4/5
Overall: 4.5/5

Another really strong outing from team Lamps and Plants. I'm a huge fan of your storytelling and your weird ambitious brains. This film was a really nice honing in and progress from your last entry with a focused story that really engaged audiences. Keep smashing it!

Wow, what SPotato said, dare I say it organisation is the Key umm the light flashing in the background is my obs brain focusing on catching atmosphere, and yes the ending, I wanted more, is this multiverse really going somewhere dadadumdim, Aawesome! Lamps all round