Rodney Thompson lived as a hermit for thirty years in a small Connemara cottage, dedicating his life to silence, solitude and prayer.

"The Cloud of Unknowing" is the title of a Middle English anonymous manual on contemplative prayer. This practice dates back to the third century Desert Fathers (and Mothers) - Christian mystics who separated themselves from distractions in order to find God.

The film is constructed from the interplay of formal and thematic dualities: movement and stasis, speech and silence, portrait and landscape, the sky and the ground. In an apparent paradox, the language of cinema is articulated in order to transcend visual and semantic representation.
 

• Best British/Irish Short Nominee,
  London Film Critics' Circle

• Best Irish Short Award, Indie Cork

• IFI DocFest

• Clifden Arts Festival

• Still Voices