A Funeral A Strategy Of Difference And Repetition

A dark comedy about a young woman in her early thirties becomes aware of her own mortality and reacts by meticulously planning her own funeral. Possibly due to a lack of other big days in her life so far, such as a wedding, this becomes her moment to shine.

Falsetta Knockers crawls out of the crypt to mark the closing of The Stud Bar’s legendary 9th & Harrison location, a notorious San Francisco landmark for drag, performance, and nightlife which fell prey to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Faith Holland performs a Jewish funeral for her dead phone.

Wake up on your commute through your dream as it consumes you again.

5 minute experimental film.

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

After a young woman receives a psychic reading, she plans her version of the perfect funeral, despite her sister's disbelief and neglect from her father, in hopes that they will be present in her final days.

A girl gives a eulogy for her father's funeral.

An upcoming LA Film Productions production

A self-obsessed millennial stages her own funeral after her therapist tells her that she has an unhealthy relationship with death.

When the lines become blurred between two Instagram accounts, one simple mistake could have deadly consequences.

Extracted from ON SUN SWALLOWING by DAKOTA WARREN and directed by CRICKET GUEST.

Lam, a Vietnamese international student, welcomes her younger sister, Phuong, to her Chicago apartment. Phuong brings a DVD of their father’s funeral, which Lam could not attend.

In Mali, women's funeral rite takes place in the village of Bongo, in Dogon country.

Coverage of the State Funeral of HM the Queen, including the service from Westminster Abbey and the procession of Her Majesty’s coffin through London, the journey of The Queen’s coffin to Windsor, the procession to St. George’s Chapel and the Committal Service.

Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.

Silent pull the mourners behind the coffins of their unfortunate colleagues past the camera.

At her father's funeral, Junior Talmadge remembers back 30 years to the last time she saw her Dad: the summer of 1979. Junior was graduating from college and had just gotten engaged. Her dad surprises the family when he arrives with a brand new motor home. He entices his kids into a final "family summer vacation," the only way he knows how: he tells them he has cancer. Thus begins the family's road trip to California, and their quest to become a real American family, the old-fashioned way, by being on a real American TV game show. As the family arrives in LA to audition for the show, secret after secret is revealed about their dad, forcing Junior and her brothers to confront the reality of who their Dad really is.

In this extraordinary documentary, we get a glimpse into a world most of us never consider until it’s thrust upon us by bereavement. But, far from morbid or dark, this is a life-affirming story, full of empathy, unexpected revelations and strangely, hope.