Alive in Colma

By Nan Bress. What's life like in a town where the dead outnumber the living by one thousand to one? Meet the residents of Colma California, "the cemetery capitol of the world," and learn why they believe "it's great to be alive in Colma." From Stanford Documentary Film School MA program, 1996.

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Film & Animation

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• Colma
• cemetery
• graveyard
• Stanford
• documentary
• film
• school
• Nan
• Bress
• funny
• dead
• people
• halloween
• 16
• mm

[l33tm4st4hpwnz0r]

San Francisco is the city that waits to die.

Colma is the city that waits for the city that waits to die to die.

[edwin11373]

My mother already bought a hole in Colma.

[superuglyman888]

i nearly shat my pants at the site of so many tombs

[theeFri]

I also see the huge fields of cemeteries of Colma when I commute back and forth from my home and my university... I would actually want to explore the cemeteries/memorial parks

And at 2:51 Are they actually playing golf?! XD I'm sorry its just so odd for me to see that~

[Johnmartine63]

I really miss Colma's cemeteries from my time in the Bay Area.

[poeforward]

Very nice work. I love the chidren's reflections and the bird sound effects. Doing this in B&W was a good choice. Very professional.

[TCall2004]

OLD cemeteries, not cold cemeteries.

[TCall2004]

A place I would love to visit.

I LOVE cold cemeteries.

[xX3m0AngelXx]

i recognize most of those graves. i've seen then so many times.