Eoghan is a sound recordist who is returning to Ireland for the first time in 15 years. The reason for his return is a job offer: to record landscapes free from man-made sound. His quest takes him to remote terrain, away from towns and villages. Throughout his journey, he is drawn into a series of encounters and conversations which gradually divert his attention towards a more intangible silence, one that is bound up with the sounds of the life he had left behind. Influenced by elements of folklore and archive, ‘Silence’ unfolds with a quiet intensity, where poetic images reveal an absorbing meditation on themes relating to sound and silence, history, memory and exile.

Harvest Films & South Wind Blows | 2012 | 84 mins
Director: Pat Collins,
Producer: Tina Moran
Script: Pat Collins, Eoghan MacGiolla Bhríde, Sharon Whooley
Camera: Richard Kendrick
Editor: Tadhg O’ Sullivan
Sound: John Brennan, Éamon Little
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Eoghan is a sound recordist who is returning to Ireland for the first time in 15 years. The reason for his return is a job offer: to record landscapes free from man-made sound. His quest takes him to remote terrain, away from towns and villages. Throughout his journey, he is drawn into a series of encounters and conversations which gradually divert his attention towards a more intangible silence, one that is bound up with the sounds of the life he had left behind. Influenced by elements of folklore and archive, ‘Silence’ unfolds with a quiet intensity, where poetic images reveal an absorbing meditation on themes relating to sound and silence, history, memory and exile.

Harvest Films & South Wind Blows | 2012 | 84 mins
Director: Pat Collins,
Producer: Tina Moran
Script: Pat Collins, Eoghan MacGiolla Bhríde, Sharon Whooley
Camera: Richard Kendrick
Editor: Tadhg O’ Sullivan
Sound: John Brennan, Éamon Little
Additional camera: Colm Hogan
Additional sound: Chris Watson
Developed by: Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board and the MEDIA Programme of the European Union....

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