Funeral Season

Travelogue and ethnography meet in this whimsical ghost story about a foreigner in the midst of a culture where “the dead are not dead”. Village by village, locals take him on a road trip through Cameroon’s most joyous funeral celebrations. Along the way, he befriends his guides and becomes increasingly haunted by memories of his own ancestors.


Matthew Lancit

Matthew Lancit was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He left for New York to study filmmaking at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the liberal arts at Sarah Lawrence College. Since graduating, his shorter works have been invited to screen at Chasma and the Film Anthology Archives in New York, the art department at the University of California, Los Angeles, and on the Saatchi Gallery website. As well as making film and video art, he has written highly personalized essays on a wide range of topics, from bibliotherapy to cartography, for publications like The Highlights and newspapers like The National Post. He currently divides his time between Toronto and Paris.