The Silent Treatment, 2024
In October 2022, film editor David Verdurme, who was also an editing supervisor at RITCS, introduced me to Minds Meet and Caroline Strubbe, the director of The Silent Treatment. This gave me the opportunity to experience the entire process of editing a feature film during my master’s year.
25 set days into production, I began laying out a first version of the film for 2 to 3 days a week. Those 25 set days eventually became 50, and on May 1st, David Verdurme joined the project as senior editor. From that point, I continued as a junior editor for two months, working side by side with David and Caroline and learning valuable lessons about editing and storytelling. In July, post-production took a break and resumed at the end of September. In February 2024, it was selected for a First Cut Lab.
Currently, the film is still in post-production
Head Of Departments
Production Company Minds Meet
Producer Tomas Leyers
Director Caroline Strubbe
Director Of Photography William Davidson
Set Sound Marcel de Hoogd
Editor David Verdurme
Sound Post Company Mospost
Software
Avid Media Composer
Synopsis
Tess, an odd 18-year-old Belgian woman with Stockholm syndrome, stalks an introverted, fortysomething Szabolcs in Budapest. His girlfriend Andrea secretly tries to approach the young stalker in order to help her confront Szabolcs with her questions about her troubled past. Gradually all three of them discover to what extent this tragic background affects their current relationships and learn to reconcile their past. The Silent Treatment is a film about how imagination and creativity can help us process traumas in order to make peace with our past. It is the third film of the Lost Persons trilogy by Caroline Strubbe, three feature films that form a unique narrative block as a sequel, but also can be viewed as standalone films.