Brian Lopez | Byron Wulf

I’ve always been a weird kid. I didn’t grow out of my weird phase — I grew into it.

Since before I could talk, I was drawn to mystery. To stories with masks and monsters. To questions that didn’t have clean answers. Not because they were scary — but because they felt true. There’s a kind of beauty in darkness that’s more honest than light. A kind of meaning that only reveals itself in the static, the silence, the dream.

As I grew, so did the stories I followed. Cartoons turned to cinema. Ghost forums turned to myth. What stayed the same was the feeling — the gravity of the unknown. The sense that behind the veil, something more was waiting.

I chase truth in twilight.

Beauty in shadows. Signal in the strange.

Everything I create — films, essays, poetry, myth, fiction — is rooted in that. A love for the symbolic, the sacred, the surreal. The stuff that haunts us, not like a ghost, but like a memory we can’t stop dreaming about.

This is The Midnight Signal — a home for transmissions from beyond the veil and reflections of the soul.

Check more of my work at www.youtube.com/@TheMidnightSignalYT. Want to connect? Email me at [email protected]

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Midnight on the Air (Pre-production)

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A surrealist short film about a late-night Los Angeles radio DJ who begins receiving mysterious calls about a woman who only exists between nightfall and dawn.

Inspirations: Greek mythology, Coast to Coast AM, David Lynch

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Script Treatment (Full Available Upon Request)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gnwEm5-7JUnFIsmp49V-bvxMdW7BGZ7JaRd8O3zNzxo/edit?usp=drive_web

Midnight on the Air - Lookbook

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Velvet Underworld (in development)

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A metaphysical neo-noir film a struggling jazz musician who must navigate the mythic underworld and shadow of Downtown Los Angeles after dark in search of his lost muse.

Inspirations: Greek mythology, Lost Highway, Alan Wake II

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The Soapbox Messiah (in development)

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A psychedelic black comedy film about a raving lunatic who becomes an unknowing messiah with a rising cult following at the hands of covert CIA experiment, Project: ODIN, set in 60’s LSD-soaked sunny San Francisco.

Inspirations: Inherent Vice, A Scanner Darkly, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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Blackwater Port (in development)

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A prohibition-era noir thriller film that follows a detective investigating two rival bootlegging mob families vying for control over the town’s ports only to unearth a cult worshipping drowned gods, a Madonna-like mob wife, and ergot-laced sacraments of madness.

Inspirations: Boardwalk Empire, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Providence

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The Picture of Dorian Gray/El Pelicula de Dorian Gray (in development)

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A gothic romance and mystery film adaptation following a young artist whose beauty and youth never fades as he begins to spiral through the nightlife and occult undercurrents of Mexico City’s underground art scene.

Inspirations: Queer, Inland Empire, Only Lovers Left Alive

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Cenote Negra (in development)

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