NOVEMBER: Raising the dead

With a view to raising the dead, Exile Room presents two documentaries with strong underworld connections, two powerful testaments to everything a person is willing to do to keep the memory of their loved ones alive.

Corpus Camera

Looking for consolation in the eyes of the departed, “Corpus Camera” lets escape a grim secret: post mortem photography has been a common practice for Icelanders for the past 100 hundred years.

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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

“I wish I never had to make this movie,” says filmmaker Kurt Kuenne. “Dear Zachary” was meant as a remembrance for his best friend’s unborn son, after said friend was murdered by his lover.

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