Project Detail

Steeping

Name: Steeping
Director: Eilidh Nicoll
Genre: Experimental, Woman Director
Released: 2025
Duration: 03:22

An image painted in coffee, depicting a mug, spoons, teabag and coffee

Eilidh Nicoll

An illustrated figure lays in a grave made of coffee grounds

Eilidh Nicoll

Synopsis

Death Cafes offer a place for strangers to gather and discuss all things mortality. Animated in tea and coffee, STEEPING explores the ceremony of the cafe, inviting people to ponder our attitudes towards death and dying and reflect on how a conversation over a cup of something might make broaching the subject a little less terrifying.

Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 03:22
Director: Eilidh Nicoll
Producer: Abigail Addison
Sound: Cameron Duthie
Specialist Advisor: Dr Hannah Rumble

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Animate Projects Limited

43 Empress Road
Derby
DE23 6TD

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