Female silence animates many of Hoggโs dramas, which follow women whose problems manifest as failures of expression: women with suppressed desires, thwarted ambitions, or a reluctance (sometimes approaching inability) to say what they mean.ย Hoggโs own biography featured a long period of what might be thought of as creative silence: after graduating from film school in the mid-โ80s, she spent nearly two decades directing music videos and television episodes.