Grandma

Gill’s work in the film is startling – by turns diffuse then piercing – she experiences with both fierceness and subtlety the cost of a life never fully lived. The dreamlike swarms of intensity she conveys contrast with the realist setting to provoke both pity and profound despair. This short piece provokes intensities of feeling and moves unexpectedly through years of anger, grief, and fractured recollection.

Shooting on the Blake Court estate in Kilburn, London – a housing complex scheduled for demolition – informs the frangibility of the mind, the body and the memory of the character.

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