A rare, transformative cinematic experience, that embodies rather than represents its subject. Through experiential, elemental cinema – a meditative journey through time, light and space – this Sundance Jury Prize winning film immerses the audience in the rhythms of monastic life, changing seasons, and the practice of absolute presence.
With no artificial light, no additional music, no commentary and near to no dialogue, Into Great Silence, a film 21 years in the making, achieves the remarkable through its masterful congruence of content and form – creating the monastery itself for 160 minutes inside the viewer, and transforming the cinema auditorium into a sacral space.
Barbican Cinema has been supported by the Culture Recovery Fund for Independent Cinemas in England which is administered by the BFI, as part of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund supporting arts and cultural organisations in England affected by the impact of Covid-19. #HereForCulture.