Death of an Undertaker

Death of an Undertaker

85 mins | Drama, Documentary | June 6, 2025

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.

Death of an Undertaker

85 mins | Drama, Documentary | June 6, 2025

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.
Producers Slowchaos
Original title Death of an Undertaker
Directors Christian Byers
Writers Christian Byers

Cast

Christian Byers

as Sparrow

Rosa Peronace

as Rose