Death of an Undertaker

Death of an Undertaker (2025)

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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.

Director: Christian Byers

Casts

	Christian Byers as Sparrow
	Michele Salamone as Mick
	Rosa Peronace as Rose
	Stefano Francalanci as Steve

Crew