Northwest Film Forum

Gregg Lachow (Seven Mysteries of Live, The Wright Brothers, Money Buys Happiness) has long concerned himself with constructing dreamlike realities. With Silence! He takes on an even more elaborate challenge.

A multi-genre performance co-commisioned by the Seattle International Film Festival and Northwest Film Forum, Silence! fuses 35mm film of an actor and actress arriving on a 1920s movie set with live performances by those same actors, as well as a live score.  Lachow teamed with the amazing acting talent of his wife Megan Murphy, with dialogue penned by Matthew Stadler and Stacey Levine, inspired by Delmore Schwarz’s 1937 story In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.

"Silence! is an ambitious experiment: a film about the creation of film, with one eye on history and the other on the future. The multiple layers of meta-mimesis of actors, characters and audience watching themselves being watched a dream about the delights and consequences  of watching.”  —Sean Nelson, The Stranger