Thanks to Marek Bogacki Staszkiewicz of DOCUMENTAVi for these documented conversations, filmed over the Killruddery Silent Film Festival 2009 weekend.

Sunniva O’Flynn at Killruddery Silent Film Festival, 2009. from DOCUMENTAVi on Vimeo.

Sunniva O’Flynn worked in the National Film Archives before becoming the curator of the Irish Film Institute in 2009.

Among other things, she is currently working on a series called ‘Seóda’, co-funded by the BCI and TG4, which will see a series of eleven archive films, including political film ‘Our Country’, screen on TG4 in the Autumn.

Kevin Brownlow at Killruddery Silent Film Festival, 2009. from DOCUMENTAVi on Vimeo.

Kevin Brownlow, Special Guest at Killruddery Silent Film Festival 2009, talks about his life long passion for silent cinema.

Stephen Horne at Killruddery Silent Film Festival, 2009. from DOCUMENTAVi on Vimeo.

Stephen Horne is one of the UK’s leading silent film accompanists. Based at BFI Southbank, he performs regularly at the Barbican Centre and the Imperial War Museum, and also internationally at film festivals in Pordenone, Telluride, San Francisco, Berlin and Bonn.

As well as accompanying silent film, Stephen has often played for ballet and contemporary dance. He writes screenplays, and his short film ‘Fatherspace’ was shown on Channel 4 and at the London Film Festival.