Screening of Silence (2012), followed by a Q&A with director Pat Collins.

Influenced by elements of folklore and archive, Silence unfolds with a quiet intensity as poetic images provide an absorbing meditation on themes relating to sound, silence, history and memory. The film focuses on Eoghan, a sound recordist, who is returning to Ireland to record landscapes free from man-made sound. This work takes Eoghan to remote terrain, where a series of encounters divert his attention towards a more intangible silence—one bound up with the sounds of the life he has left behind.

Pat Collins is a filmmaker who has directed numerous documentaries for cinema and television. He has won multiple awards for his work, which includes Oileán Thoraí (2002), Marooned (2004), Gabriel Byrne – Stories From Home (2008), 1916: The Irish Rebellion (2016) and Songs of Granite (2017).