Fall of the Ibis King

For almost half a century, Don Ritchie would approach people contemplating suicide at the edge of a cliff near his home. Teacups explores Don’s surreal interactions with hundreds of suicidal individuals and his journey to reconcile the suicide of his best friend.

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every direction. Despite the wild motion of its parts, the galaxy as a whole was rotating about an axis. So why did the Milky Way, like most galaxies, become flat, and not spherical like stars and planets?

Created to accompany Mary Coughlan’s haunting rendition of 'Is That All There Is?' from her most ambitious project to date - Mirrors, a reimagining of Peggy Lee’s 1975 album written by Leiber & Stoller.

On an empty little rock in an empty black sea lived empty little people with a compulsive thirst for tea...