Murder in Passing is a Canadian short film series directed by John Greyson, [1] which was broadcast as a series of 42 30-second episodes through January and February 2013 on Pattison Outdoor Advertising's video screens in the Toronto Transit Commission's subway system. [2]
The series stars Alexander Chapman as Epicene, a transgender detective investigating the murder of Mars Brito (Chase Joynt), a bike courier, in the fictional town of Passing, British Columbia. [1] The cast also includes Guillermo Verdecchia, Arsinée Khanjian, Moynan King and Nina Arsenault. [3]
The series was commissioned in 2007 as an outgrowth of the Toronto Urban Film Festival, an annual event in which Pattison screens one-minute short works by artists and filmmakers on its network of subway video screens. [2] The episodes were also distributed as a web series, [2] additional clues to the mystery were published via Twitter and in the Toronto edition of Metro , [3] and Greyson indicated plans to expand it into a feature film. [2] In the web series edition, each episode is followed by a 30-second opera aria, written by David Wall, which also shares clues to the murder. [4]