Death of an Undertaker

Shot over eight years, this hybrid documentary is set in a real-life funeral home on Leichhardt’s famous Norton St, and features an admirably game cast of actual morticians— Sparrow, a part-time worker whose fragile psyche begins to fracture in the lead-up to his first exhumation. On the brink of homelessness, Sparrow is offered shelter in the flat next door to the parlour, as the boundary between life and death – and work and self – dissolves into oblivion. Bleakly funny and formally playful.

Country:

Australia

Genre:

Documentary,

Drama

Duration:

85 minutes

Year:

2025

Director:

Christian Byers

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Company:

Slowchaos

Cast:

Sparrow

Mick

Rose

Steve

Crew:

Director

Editor

Producer

Writer