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Synopsis: In Pursuit of Silence is a meditative film about our relationship with silence and the impact of noise on our lives. In our race towards modernity, amidst all the technological innovation and the rapid growth of our cities, silence is now quickly passing into legend. From the Desert Fathers of the third century AD who became the model for Christian monasticism to John Cage's seminal work 4'33" which would go onto inspire a generation of artists, humankind has had a long fascination with silence. In Pursuit of Silence will be the first comprehensive look at this topic whose many dimensions lie at the heart of so much of human progress. Offering audiences a contemplative cinematic experience, the sights and sounds of this film will work its way through frantic minds, into the quiet spaces of hearts, and help shape a new vision of being.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Patrick Shen
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
70
Year:
2015
81 min
49 Views


DAVID TUDOR:
They were incensed.

They were in an uproar

over the performance.

And afterwards, John opened

the floor to questions.

One of the artists got up

and said,

"Good people of Woodstock,

"I think we should

run these people out of town."

That was the reaction. (LAUGHS)

PICO IYER:
Silence is where

we hear something deeper

than our chatter.

And silence is where we speak

something deeper than our words.

(INAUDIBLE)

All of us know that the most

essential things in life

are exactly what

we can't express.

Our relation to faith,

our relation to love,

our relation to death,

our relation to divinity.

I think silence is the resting

place of everything essential.

ROSS:
For the first,

I don't know how many,

hundred thousand years

of human life,

when we were out

on the savanna,

learning about the forest,

silence was essential

to our survival.

So, silence is

our natural milieu,

and the farther we get

away from silence,

the more we lose our humanity.

(AIRPLANE RUMBLING)

PUNDIT ON TV:
I want you

to answer the questions!

I want you

to answer the questions!

- Was there...

- WOMAN:
Do I believe...

- I'm giving you an opportunity.

- This is how to ask it.

This is how you need...

I'm giving you an opportunity.

I'm doing the interview, Dana.

- But you weren't there...

- I don't need to...

PROCHNIK:
American individualism

now has become

more and more associated with

our right and our

almost social obligation

to impose our will on the world,

to get out our thoughts,

to not hesitate, to not be shy.

(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

In race after race,

bottom line...

- In race after race...

- Third card trick...

In race after race,

Democrats...

- When it comes to women.

- Winning over women...

There is such an intense,

overwhelming drive

to contribute our

little ricocheting response

to this soul-crushing din

of the moment.

- ...over me. You're not...

- (INDISTINCT)

- One of the specific plans...

- You're not gonna filibuster.

- I'm not going to let you do it.

- Ed, Ed, Ed!

Let me answer your question

you asked me earlier.

- (CONTINUES TALKING)

- I'll go back to this question.

PROCHNIK:

Throughout Japanese history,

there has been an appreciation

of softer, quieter

registers of being.

One of the most

signal instances of this

is really in relationship

to the tea ceremony.

One of the most

important masters, Sen Rikyu,

lived at a time

of incredible martial activity

among different samurai groups.

And part of his interest

in developing the tea ceremony,

in the ways that he did,

was to cultivate

an appreciation for silence

and silence's relationship

to a more

pacific environment

in general.

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