Lingers in Silence
To curb her loneliness on Christmas Day, an elderly housewife resorts to drugging her husband's tea with sedatives and engaging in a secret relationship with a camboy. However things go wrong when her husband doesn't wake up and her daughter decides to visit.
'Lingers in Silence' is a UAL short film examining loneliness and working-class British families in a psychologically twisted tragicomedy
Project
Lingers in Silence
Jay T. Grimes, Writer/Director
Hello and thank you for visiting our campaign page! 'Lingers in Silence' is a character study of Anne, an elderly housewife whose routine life spirals into chaos after she discovers that her husband has passed away.
I knew that my next project would explore working-class British nuclear families like my own. Besides powerhouse films such as Nil by Mouth and Bait, there are scarce examples of on screen working-class British families that aren't caricatures or stereotypes.
Family is always something that I will eternally romanticise. The eccentricities, the history, the friendship and the feuds. A network of love, hate and pain beating through the hearts of the quirky characters who live and breathe it. At the centre of all families though is code: the gestures that are acceptable and the reactions that aren't. The cultural identity that each member abides to. What more do I have to tell than my own thumbprint, the history of people that I know and love, and the stories inherited to me?
Though fictional, the people in my film are true to those I know and love best. Both a homage and a critique of my cultural heritage.
Story
Lunchtime, Christmas day. Anne, an elderly housewife, is continually ignored and disregarded by her controlling husband Dennis, and middle-aged daughter Dawn; left to cook, manage and clean up after the family's festivities. However when her daughter leaves and evening passes, Anne resorts to her usual weekly routine: drugging Dennis' tea with sleeping tablets to engage in her secret- an online relationship with a young camboy. Her lust for connection is soon interrupted, however, when her husband fails to wake up, and Dawn arrives again out of the blue.
What does your money go towards?
We are a small production with a lot of heart. As such, each and every crew and cast member is spending hours of time and effort without pay. Our budget goes to making our dreams come alive:
- Transporting equipment and props
- Hiring our locations
- Renting camera equipment
- Production design dressing
- Catering for our cast and crew
"Thank you for taking the time to look at our campaign. Whether it's £100, or £1, every penny will help us get a step closer to being able to tell a story that we are passionate about"
