AFTERNOON TEA AT THE DEATH CAFÉ

Afternoon Tea at the Death Café is an experimental short film centered on a man who enters a church for the first time in twenty years and finds himself drawn into a strange gathering known as the Death Café. Through a series of encounters with its patrons, each representing a distinct moral impulse, he is forced to confront his relationship with death, religion, memory, and what it means to be a good person in a morally unstable world. The film uses theatrical blocking, symbolic lighting, stylized performance, and surreal visual language to transform a simple social gathering into a psychological and spiritual journey. Rather than treating death as a distant event, the project frames it as a space of conversation, temptation, reflection, and collective confrontation.