Never Fuggedaboutit
2023 · 15m · USA
Directed by Dustin Waldman
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic, tense
Set in post-9/11 NYC, a post-production house is tasked with removing the Twin Towers from The Sopranos opening credits; when editor Frank refuses, he loses his job, and his replacement Mike inherits the same moral dilemma.
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Wait, WHAT. A whole short about the editor who had to scrub the Twin Towers out of the Sopranos credits and quit over it. History as workplace drama. Impossible premise, exists.
A post-production house erasing the towers from Sopranos credits is the kind of microhistorical premise that recalls early Charlie Kaufman or Spike Jonze — genuinely original conceptual territory.
Builds an entire ethical drama around the real production task of digitally erasing the Twin Towers from The Sopranos opening credits — that's a genuinely original setting for a post-9/11 piece and an unusually specific moral problem to dramatize.