When the DVD of The Saddest Music in the World was released in 2004, it included Sissy Boy Slap Party, and two new Guy Maddin shorts – A Trip to the Orphanage and Sombra Dolorosa. All three were intended to be viewed as spin-offs of The Saddest Music of the World, despite Sissy Boy Slap Party having been made almost a decade before. Both of the new shorts ran about four minutes in length and featured a combination of music and Maddin’s bizarrely beautiful imagery. A Trip to the Orphanage features one of Saddest Music’s stars, Maria de Medieros, opera music, haunting imagery and an overwhelming sense of sadness. Sombra Delorosa has been described as “a demented take on demented Mexican melodramas” that tells the tale of the Widow Paramo who must battle El Muerto (the eater of souls) in order to save her suicidal daughter. The battle, naturally, takes place in a Mexican boxing ring. Also in 2004, the Sao Paulo International Film Festival featured a retrospective of Maddin’s work.