Death of an Undertaker
7.3
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.
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Cast
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Christian Byers Director · PJ Mitton Editor
First release June 6, 2025 · Produced in Australia · Languages English, Italian
Production
Slowchaos
Production
Australia
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Italian
Release dates
Australia · June 6, 2025
Premiere · Sydney Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Australia
October 25, 2025 · Premiere · Adelaide Film Festival
July 11, 2026 · Premiere · Revelation Perth International Film Festival
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