A Certain Kind of Death

A Certain Kind of Death lays bare a mysterious process that goes on all arund us: What happens to people who die with no next of kin? Filmmakers Blue Hadaegh and Grover Babcock present this dark milieu in surprisingly composed and beautiful scenes. We witness a variety of public employees handling the bodies, personal property and money of those who have died alone. As each life is revealed to us, each is also drawn inevitably toward the same vanishing point. Unexpected ironies and compelling imagery force us to ponder the question "Wgat is death?" For the unmourned people we have come to know in the film, it is total erasure.