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TUCSON - Exactly one year before the January 8 tragedy, the man charged in the shooting rampage had submitted a short film to The Loft, representatives from the theater confirmed to News 4 today.

Jared Loughner submitted the three-minute video for The Loft's Friday Night Shorts - a monthly event featuring short films from local filmmakers, says J.J. Giddings, a representative for the midtown theater. Staff members made the surprise discovery last month.

"We just discovered last month that Jared Loughner did submit a film to our First Friday Shorts - exactly a year before the tragedy on Jan. 8th, 2010," Giddings says. "It was called 'W-I-L-D' and was a silent film with just the words 'Lucid Dream' written in the sand and some scenes of the desert and the beach alternating, there weren't any people in the film at all."

The subject matter of the film is consistent with Loughner's other known films and internet postings: he often discussed lucid dreaming alongside diatribes about language and reality.

"My sister is an attorney and I turned it over to her to submit it as evidence in case it would be useful in the case, plus it was pretty creepy having it in the office," Giddings says.

Loughner is currently in a federal prison hospital in Missouri while his attorneys appeal the court's decision to forcibly medicate him for the safety of himself and others.