LIKE GLASS is currently being adapted into a feature film for release in 2021.
Logline: A young woman, Kira, wakes in an abandoned wasteland, severely injured, with absolutely no recollection of how she got there. As she struggles to stay alive, strange events begin to unfold that lead her to confront a terrifying possibility.
LIKE GLASS is currently being adapted into a feature film for release in 2021.
Synopsis: A young woman, Kira (Emily Trappen) wakes in an abandoned wasteland, severely injured, with absolutely no recollection of how she got there. She discovers a lighter, filthy and covered in mud besides a river bank and uses it to start a fire, which brings much needed relief from the bitter coldness. Her daily trips to retrieve firewood lead to her discovering more objects in the forests and lands around her, each more strange than the last. When one object triggers a terrifying panic attack, Kira begins to fear she is being followed. In the nights, her dreams become more vivid and morph into nightmarish soundscapes, until one night when several clear images finally present themselves.
She heads out into the wasteland when morning comes and there she finds it. An abandoned and wrecked car. What she finds inside will force her to confront the very reality of her surroundings and face a terrifying possibility as she finally remembers what happened before she woke up and who the girl in the car, covered in blood, is.
LIKE GLASS is a sensitive, honest and artistic exploration of guilt, of grief and of forgiveness.
Adam Spinks comments on his inspiration for making LIKE GLASS.
"I’d wanted for a long time to tell a story about this subject matter but had often gotten a fair way down the path before I realised it wasn’t right. When Thérésa Hedges (screenwriter) first spoke to me about it and we started passing ideas back and forth, I knew immediately that we had to make this film.
When the opportunity to work with Emily Trappen and Abigail King presented itself, we put the wheels in motion to shoot it very quickly and we decided to shoot the film in a similar lo-fi way to how Gareth Edwards captured ‘Monsters’ (2010)".
Adam Spinks comments on why he shot LIKE GLASS in a "fractured manner".
"I actually wrote a film about something similar back when I was at university and I remember being intensely frustrated with the end result. By telling the story in this fractured manner, we can give the audience the same experience as Kira herself, they’re never ahead of her in the storytelling which is very important. It almost unfolds as a kind of mystery which I love. Shooting it the way we did just gave us total freedom to improvise, to create and to work which has given the film a beautiful, organic and almost candid quality."
