name: The Black Op
other incarnations: Parhelik Sirkle, The Nukleus Group
base of operations: Los Angeles, CA

The Black Op mission is to create professional quality cinematic works that celebrate and perpetuate a progressive image of colorful people and culture by prominently featuring empowered women and men in leading roles making decisions and taking action which suggests a deep intellectual, empirical and/or spiritual understanding of themselves in the world.

The Black Op proposes to walk the fine line between cultural significance and commercial viability. They aim to employ an unmistakable aesthetic that embraces and elevates:

“the field of manners and rituals of social intercourse the music, speech, rhythms, eating habits, religious beliefs, gestures, notions of common sense, attitudes toward sex, concepts of beauty and justice, and the responses to pleasure and pain that have enabled us to survive the loss of our political will and the disruption of our history.”
- August Wilson

A number of its operatives have gone deep undercover to acquire Bachelor and Masters degrees from institutions of higher learning while preserving their affiliations with the rogue element in underground art, sound and visual movements of today.

To date, they have proven to defy limited expectations by creating stories that resonate with craft and depth informed by historic canonical classics while preserving an...