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Over My Dead Body

Documentary (2007) – ABC1
dir. Ian Walker | prod. Vickie Gest | edit. Karin Steininger | narr. Brendan Cowell
Vizpoets

  • Winner Prix du Jury at SCINEMA Festival of Science Film 24th August 2008
  • ATOM Award nominee, Best Documentary Science, Technology and the Environment (2008)

Stripped down to its sellable parts, the recycled human body can be repackaged and sold for around 200 thousand dollars. Skin and bone from the dead are part of a new resources boom. Over My Dead Body will make you think long and hard about the curious transactions humans make with each other over the recycling of the dead

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Ian Walker’s Over My Dead Body webpage

What the Critics Have Said
“Walker has created a film that is both fascinating and compelling.” – Judy Adamson, The Age, 14 November 2007