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Pat Collins Director

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Pat Collins is a Cork-born filmmaker who has directed over 25 documentaries prior to his feature debut Silence.

His first film, Michael Hartnett - A Necklace of Wrens, won the Jury Award at the Celtic Film Festival in 2000. Talking to the Dead centred on the Irish funeral tradition, and Oiléan Thoraí won Best Irish Documentary at the Irish Film and Television Awards in 2003. Abbas Kiarostami – The Art of Living (co-directed with Fergus Daly) was a fine portrait of the Iranian director, while Rebel County used the shooting of Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley to explore the War of Independence in West Cork. Collins has directed documentaries on the Irish writer Frank O’Connor, the poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and the Connemara-based writer and cartographer Tim Robinson. His film, John McGahern: A Private World, again won Best Irish Documentary in 2005, and in the same year Marooned won the Best Irish Sports Documentary award. The feature portrait, Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home, was completed in 2008, and the film essay What We Leave in Our Wake in 2011.

More details on his films can be found at: Harvestfilms.ie

Documentaries

1999 Michael Hartnett – A Necklace of Wrens

2000 Talking to the Dead

2001 Idir na Línte

2002 Oileán Thoraí (Tory Island)

2003 Frank O'Connor - The Lonely Voice

Abbas Kiarostami – The Art of Living [co-directed with Fergus Daly]

2004 Marooned

John McGahern: A Private World

2005 Domhnach in Éireann (Sunday in Ireland) [co-directed with Conor Hammond, Eamon Little, Adrian McCarth]

Beyond the Mountain

Cathair Corcaigh

Rebel County

2006 David Marcus: A Conversation with Dermot Bolger

2007 Na Duganna

Ar Thóir Logainmeacha

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill - Taibhsí i mBéal na Gaoithe

2008 Loch Dearg [co-directed with Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde]

Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home

Pilgrim

2009 The Great Irish Famine - Remember Skibbereen

Lough Hyne

2011 What We Leave in Our Wake

Tim Robinson: Connemara

Fiction

2012 Silence

Director	Pat Collins
Producer	Tina Moran
Written By	Pat Collins
	Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde
	Sharon Whooley
Film Editor	Tadhg O’Sullivan
Director Of Photography	Richard Kendrick
Location Sound	John Brennan
	Éamon Little
Research & Casting	Anna Rodgers
	Sharon Whooley
Production Manager	Eimear O’Kane
Location Manager	Paddy Cahill
Additional Camera (Tory Island)	Colm Hogan
Location Sound (Berlin)	John Brennan
	Chris Watson
Production Manager (Berlin)	Donogh McCabe
Set Design / Props	Brien Vahey
	Owen Mac Carthaigh (Glenveagh)
Script Editor	Mark McIlrath
Post Production Co-ordinator	Ciara Baker
Special Effects	Michael Regan
Quiet Areas Acoustic and
Environment Consultant	Declan Waugh
Online Editor	Cillian Duffy
Sound Mix	Ken Galvin
Sound and Music Editor	Tadhg O’Sullivan
Bord Scannán na hÉireann
Chief Executive	James Hickey
Production Executive	Alan Maher

Produced with the support of	Investment incentives for the
	Irish Film Industry provided by
	the Government of Ireland.
	Developed with the support of
	the MEDIA Programme of the
	European Union.
Developed with the assistance of	Bord Scannán na hÉireann /
	The Irish Film Board.

Filmed on location in Ireland.	By Resound Films Ltd.
	With the co-operation of The
	National Parks and Wildlife
	Service (NPWS) of the
	Department of the Environment,
	Heritage and Local Government.


A South Wind Blows/Harvest Films production.
Made with the support of the
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
in association with Raidió Teilifís Éireann
And with the participation of
Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish Film Board
Ireland 2012 84 minutes

Cast	Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde
	Hilary O’Shaughnessy
	Andrew Bennett
	Jens K. Müller
	Patrick O’Connor
	Michael Harding
	Tommy Fahy
	Tim Robinson
	Peter Lacey
	Marie Coyne
	Jordan Shiels
	Paul Rodgers


Music	‘The Breeze and I’ (English translation of Andalucia)
	Performed by Nellie Nic Giolla Bhríde
	Written by Ernesto Lecuona and Al Stillman

	‘1671 Milton Samson 1122 Add
	thy Spear, a Weavers beam, and
	seven-times-folded shield’
	Performed & composed by Akira Rabelais

	‘Symphony No. 9, Fourth Movement’
	Gustav Mahler

	‘Caves’ and ‘From Monday Afternoon’
	Performed and Composed by Karl Burke

	‘Derechos’
	Performed and Composed by Damian Valles

	‘Who Knows Where the Time Goes’
	Performed and Composed by Sandy Denny

	‘I Fall Apart’
	Performed and Composed by Rory Gallagher

	‘Amhrán na Leabhar’
	Performed & composed by Sean Mac Erlaine

	‘An Chúilfhionn’
	Trad. Performed by Nellie Nic Giolla Bhríde

	‘Is Trua nach Bhfuil mé in Éirinn’ & ‘A Pháidí, a Grá’
	Trad. Performed by Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde

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'Five favourite new films (all of them, quite by accident, to do with love):
Silence... Also quasi-documentary, Collins’s feature debut about an Irish sound engineer seeking locations free from man-made sound is finally a touching love-letter to the notion of home.'
Geoff Andrew, Head of film programme, BFI Southbank, in Sight and Sound, January 2013

‘Renowned for his documentary work, Pat Collins has delivered a remarkable first fiction feature with Silence, a simple, haunting and poetic vision of Ireland which brings to mind few precedents and defies easy categorisation... an absorbing experience.’
Michael Hayden, London Film Festival Catalogue

‘The symphonic quality to the cinematography, together with the quality of Mac Giolla Bhride’s turn in the central role, results in a spectacle that will resonate with those who appreciate quality cinema. Silence is a deeply personal story, but it’s loaded with a poignant universal resonance – it’s a silence that can be said to speak volumes.’
Sunday Independent

‘Pat Collins, an unclassifiable Irish talent, returns with another starkly beautiful, deliberately confounding quasi-documentary. Close your eyes after a first viewing and you will recall widescreen shots of lapping seas, big skies and sprawling wetlands.’
Donald Clarke, Irish Times
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★★★★

'Silence is a remarkable film: daring, original, even groundbreaking in its way. Though my -- or indeed any -- description of the film will make it sound pretentious and offputtingly arid, in fact it's anything but. Eoghan's task might be ethereal, but Collins grounds his film deep in the western soil.'
Paul Whitington, Irish Independent
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★★★★

'surprising and unquiet meditation on man, memory and landscape.'
Wally Hammond, Time Out London
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★★★★

Michael Pattison Front Row reviews at LFF

'Silence is for Ireland what sleep furiously was for Wales'

Matt Turner Front Row Reviews

'By turns abstract, poetic and curiously haunting, it’s an indefinable, enigmatic beast – one that demands your attention, and deserves it.'

Image magazine

'Director Pat Collins is the star here. He manages to get so much right and he uses such simple and beautiful touches to achieve this. His use of archive footage is superb and even the use of maps to give the audience the idea of where Eoghan travels is so simple and so successful that you can’t help but be utterly impressed.'
Thumped.com
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'It's a haunting film, though, not least because it feels like a rare indulgence, allowing yourself the tactile pleasure of stepping outside the blare of the day's rat-run to wallow in the luxury of hush, space and stalled time. It's as if the entire film is one long Pinteresque pause, a deep drawing of some life-giving breath, and for that alone it's a hugely enjoyable experience.'
Declan Burke, Irish Examiner
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'Silence offers its viewers the space to contemplate the images, the soundscapes and these intermittent exchanges.'
Anthony Nield, The Digital Fix Film
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"AMAZING. Silence is not just a film of staggeringly beautiful cinematography and overwhelmingly evocative sound, it is an island of calm in the tumultuous sea of life that allows us to pause and take stock of the world around us."

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