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Behind the Scenes

Building Eleven Years of Silence

18 min · The Long Quiet · Mara Okonkwo

Video opens with the public launch

Mara Okonkwo walks through how the relay station was designed as a locked location, why the first ninety generations were unusable, and how Ilse's face was held consistent across a fifteen-month shoot.

The hardest part was not the face. It was the light. A room lit by one screen looks different every time you ask for it.

Mara Okonkwo

Chapters

  1. 01Where the idea came from
  2. 02Locking the location
  3. 03Ilse's character reference
  4. 04Ninety failed generations
  5. 05Finding the voice
  6. 06Scoring the silence
  7. 07The final cut