The Coffinmaker
Marcus Daly builds wooden coffins by hand, and this short profile follows his work as both a craft and a quiet argument against the modern funeral industry. The film watches him plane, join, and finish caskets in his workshop, framing each one as a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to the metal caskets that dominate the market. Daly talks through why wood breaks down naturally where steel does not, and why a handmade coffin can cost a family a fraction of what a funeral home charges for a manufactured one. The camera lingers on the physical process, the grain of the wood, the joinery, the finished box, letting the craftsmanship make its own case rather than relying on narration to argue it. It is a small, specific portrait of one man's trade, but it opens onto a bigger question about what burial has to cost and who decides that.