Mournful Things: A Modern Day Opera

The camera floats half-way round a winged man. A square, paper-wrapped package changes hands. Music industry execs, with biblical names, in Goth attire, entangle in a fatal dance of death. Hip, stylized, and sly, Joseph Sulpizi's short film serves up a noir sci-fi fantasy that may, or may not, allegorize the cut-throat world of big-label music.