Film fans appreciate Quaker silence

Waiting & Silence, a short film showing a Meeting for Worship, was screened at the Aperture Festival at the Corrymeela Community in Northern Ireland last week.

The film was made by Corrymeela community member, and Quaker, Paul Hutchinson, and shot at Coleraine Meeting House.

Paul told the Friend: ‘We live in a noisy culture – I want to get people interested in why this is and to offer spaces of silence in order to find themselves, each other, the Divine.’

He was inspired partly by his own journey into the Quaker tradition, but also by the need ‘to create a document of Quaker worship’.

Some thirty-five people saw the film at Corrymeela. Paul explained: ‘They started off shifting in their seats, unsettled, and then by thirty minutes, the length of the film, the room had settled and the space had changed.’

He added: ‘One person wanted to close their eyes, which is difficult if you are watching a film!’

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