“Hagen has crafted something genuinely post-genre, a work that honors opera, indie cinema, and documentary while subordinating all three to a fiercer commitment: bearing witness to the artist as mortal being, to creativity as both salvation and self-immolation. In an era of algorithmic content and demographic targeting, Hagen's Bardo Trilogy stands as bracing proof that cinema can still be alchemical, dangerous, genuinely new. This is operafilm as terminal diagnosis and love letter, Whitman's America singing itself into beautiful, necessary extinction..”

- Adrián Pérez, Lonely Wolf Review