The film is broken, flaps in the projector, then someone stops it to make repairs. It is silent in the theater. When the cinema resumes, the narrative is unspoken and runs like ticker-tape in subtitles at the bottom of the film, accompanied by an orchestral score.

The gauzy impressionistic lens is fixed upon the corpse of Darius.

Over the brief interval of its presentation, the camera is fixed upon it as it metamorphoses in time-lapsed photography.

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Music excerpt is

“Juliet’s Funeral” from

Prokofiev’s ballet of Romeo and Juliet

as found on this album.