{"id":10310,"date":"2016-10-10T14:25:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T13:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/?p=10310"},"modified":"2016-10-10T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T17:19:19","slug":"review-in-pursuit-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/film-tv\/review-in-pursuit-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: In Pursuit of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In Pursuit of Silence <\/em>is a feature-length documentary from Patrick Shen that\u252c\u00e1addresses a very necessary topic. It is by no means a piece frustrated at the lack of silence\u252c\u00e1in a modern world full of noise &#8211; there is appreciation for the\u252c\u00e1wind rustling through trees, birdsong and even sounds of the city. Rather, it is a\u252c\u00e1meditation\u252c\u00e1on the ways in which different people seek and experience silence, from religious and ceremonial causes to better learning environments in an inner-city school,\u252c\u00e1and how it can benefit us in a wider sense.<\/p>\n<p>An American who has taken a vow of silence, Zen Buddhist monks, a conductor of tea ceremonies, a sound technician for a national park; the subjects of this film are not\u252c\u00e1truly silent, but wish to put themselves in environments\u252c\u00e1quiet enough to simply listen. What this does is open up an interior state of watching, be this meditation, calm or even the appropriate state to see the world around us for what it really is. Even instances that would be regarded as &#8216;silent&#8217; are not &#8211; John Cage&#8217;s 4&#8217;33, a musical piece with not one note played, has the sound of the audience occasionally coughing, and the anechoic chamber at -13db has the sound of your central nervous system and blood flowing through you. Shen&#8217;s film tells us that pursuing silence is really a pursuit of awareness, and we seek it to open ourselves up to a sense often over-stimulated in a world full of loud transport and busy cities.\u252c\u00e1It was a shame, then, that at the end of the screening I attended, almost everybody in the audience left without taking even a moment to enjoy what the entire film was analysing, dissecting and appreciating: the few minutes of total silence, as the credits rolled.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10311 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"In Pursuit of Silence\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996-990x556.jpg 990w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996-1320x742.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996-470x264.jpg 470w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996-215x120.jpg 215w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996-414x232.jpg 414w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/26996.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The visual representation of silence in Patrick Shen&#8217;s film\u252c\u00e1is of sounds and their source. Its editing in particular was wonderful as it placed the audience in the appropriate meditative state to understand and gain awareness for why silence is no longer a commodity in the\u252c\u00e1modern world around us. The shots that come to mind are those that lingered &#8211; though\u252c\u00e1I felt were more infrequent than I would have liked &#8211; such as that of\u252c\u00e1a lone tree in a field in Iowa, which both opened and closed the film. Shen allows you\u252c\u00e1to watch\u252c\u00e1for so long that you begin to feel as though you could match each individual rustle to their\u252c\u00e1leaf. Your mind drifts from its awareness of watching a film to a more organic experiencing of the scene itself, and being in a darkened and quiet room. Its effect on me was akin to that of when I watched\u252c\u00e1four 16mm films by avant-garde filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky a few years ago at the BFI Southbank cinema. \u252c\u00e1The four films,\u252c\u00e1<em>Summer<\/em> (2013), <em>February<\/em> (2014), <em>Avraham<\/em> (2014) and <em>December<\/em> (2015), celebrated\u252c\u00e1&#8217;the silence of visual experience and poetic realism&#8217;, silent and delicately projected at &#8216;the sacred speed&#8217; of 18 frames per second. Long takes of flowers gently breathing in the dark, nature seen through a pane of glass, close-up studies of people; all of these, in silence, begin to take on the devotional quality that he words beautifully in his book <em>Devotional Cinema<\/em>. There were glimpses of this quality in the longer takes of <em>In Pursuit of Silence<\/em>.\u252c\u00e1It delighted me, then, to see Dorsky&#8217;s name appear in the credits as\u252c\u00e1editing consultant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10347\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10347 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/tumblr_mxegkwL1Cq1s6z4s9o1_1280-1-1024x369.jpg\" alt=\"In Pursuit of Silence\" width=\"1024\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/tumblr_mxegkwL1Cq1s6z4s9o1_1280-1-1024x369.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/tumblr_mxegkwL1Cq1s6z4s9o1_1280-1-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/tumblr_mxegkwL1Cq1s6z4s9o1_1280-1-768x277.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/tumblr_mxegkwL1Cq1s6z4s9o1_1280-1-1320x477.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/tumblr_mxegkwL1Cq1s6z4s9o1_1280-1.jpg 1324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer (2013)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>In Pursuit of Silence\u252c\u00e1<\/em>is interesting in this sense, as it\u252c\u00e1follow a\u252c\u00e1documentary format yet also has many qualities of meditative films such as those of the Avant-garde and Italian Neo-realism. I did feel, however, that there could have been more of this experimentation -\u252c\u00e1I would have appreciated more opportunities for the audience to understand what the interviewees were analysing and explaining by being given more longer takes to simply watch in &#8216;silence&#8217;. Nevertheless,\u252c\u00e1Shen&#8217;s film is able to convey beautifully &#8211; both through explanation and exemplification &#8211; that\u252c\u00e1silence is not &#8216;without sound&#8217; but is a removal of the dissonance, and\u252c\u00e1its universal benefit is to allow for experience and\u252c\u00e1awareness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE is in UK cinemas from 21<sup>st<\/sup> October.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pursuitofsilence.com\/\">http:\/\/pursuitofsilence.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pursuit of Silence is a feature-length documentary from Patrick Shen that\u252c\u00e1addresses a very necessary topic. 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