Pat Collins will attend the screening.
Award-winning director Pat Collins collaborates with Donegal film-maker and writer Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde on the wonderfully enigmatic Silence, a haunting meditation on those unseen aspects of the Irish landscape, free from the turbulent onslaught of modernity, and their effect on the human self.
The story follows Eoghan O’Suilleabháin (Mac Giolla Bhríde), an Irishman living in Berlin. He has been commissioned to undertake an unusual project: to travel to the most remote areas in Ireland to record silence – as it may have existed before man’s impact on the local geography. These locations are places where outsiders don’t visit, places inaccessible by public transport and often not documented by cartography. These are places that strict notions of time subside and past and present appear to merge into one.
As well as a tangible journey, Silence is also an odyssey through languages – beginning in German and then moving into English, then Irish as Eoghan continues on his psychogeographical quest, reaching Connemara and eventually his native Donegal, where he finally speaks in his own dialect. An elegant and poetic experience, Silence is a profoundly moving, lyrical evocation of our physical environment. - Colm McAuliffe, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
