Friday January 24, 1310-1430
The Project Room, (Room 1.06, 50 George Square)
Film-screening and Q&A with Bruce Eunson
Dis Quiet, written by Bruce Eunson, tells the story of the unpublished diaries of Jose Fernandes from Lisbon. After his death the diaries were found and published. Samuel Laurence, a Shetland man, reads the English translation of the diaries and sets out to translate the diaries to his own language, the Shetland dialect, and to reset them to his own home. As the translation progresses the endeavour subtly shifts to giving Samuel Laurence’s journey its own voice. The musings of Jose Fernandes and Samuel Laurence, two men from different places and different times, whose worlds would on some levels have had very little, yet on other levels much, in common, and whose lives touched only by chance through the written word by one and the reading eye of the other, start to blend and interweave until they form a unique new tapestry, a new inseparable whole.
Bruce Eunson is a writer, poet and filmmaker from Shetland. His work explores themes of identity and place, as well as being romantic and philosophical. His writing and his films are told in Shetlandic, the dialect of Scots language unique to the isles.