- Can you ever walk the same road twice? Train of Broken Light is the debut 27-minute film from Photographer Martin Twomey. It documents the return of its narrator to his native Irish landscape to retrace the footsteps of a childhood adventure that compelled him towards a life of travel and discovery, and which would ultimately draw him back to the place where it all began.—Anonymous
- Train Of Broken Light takes us back to a journey in the summer of 1975, when six boy scouts set out on a three-day hike through rural Ireland. It follows their route in search of what is hidden in the ordinary and to discover what it means to come home.
In childhood the adventurous amongst us often wonder what lies over the horizon, beyond home, beyond what we can presently see. We hanker for what is far away, not what is close to hand. Adulthood brings the opportunity to express that curiosity, to leave home far behind and explore distant lands and new cities. The film seeks to return with the eyes of a traveler and explore that landscape of home and how it connects to the rest of the world, contrary to the childhood sense that the rest of the world is separate, more exciting.
This is a film about seeing beyond the ordinary and valuing the simple. Each stop on the journey resonates with the childhood memory of first treading that path and with the echoes of those who have passed there before. The narrative peels back the layers of the ordinary revealing its connection to an often forgotten past and to the wider world beyond. It explores how experience changes our perception and how, no matter how often we return to a journey, it will never be the same each time.
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