[5][6] After their limited festival run, and struggles to find stability, Lingford made What She Wants (1994) with funding of a grant from the Animate!
[7] For What She Wants, Lingford resorted to use her Amiga 1500 computer – having no access to animation equipments –, doing individual frames on Deluxe Paint.
Lingford had learnt rudimentary usage of the computer in a workshop at the RCA, when hand-drawn animation remained the dominant technique.
[9] The creative process, however, would take place in full view of the people navigating through the museum : Lingford would be working in a glass room.
[13] Perhaps due to the success of Silence, she approached novelist and Christian theologian Sara Maitland, who Lingford remembered for her short story "The Swallow and the Nightingale"[14] (from her Far North and Other Dark Tales collection).
Pleasures of War was scripted by Maitland, who also collaborated on the general design of the work, based on the deuterocanonical Book of Judith – a story in which two women bargain sexual favors to protect their city from besiegers.
[8] In terms of style, The Old Fools marks a departure from Lingford's computer-drawn evocative imagery; its aesthetics, rather combining DV footage, are drawings and typography animated in After Effects and Painter.
The collaboration was successful, and remained inlined with Lingford's previous imagery : "a sublimely creepy evocation of the biological drives and desires".