Éist Liom (Listen to me) is the story of Carmen. It has been performed many times before. It happens everywhere. On stages all over the world. In this story, Carmen betrays her partner, Don José. He loves her but she doesn’t feel the same.

After running away, Don José tracks Carmen down to where she is hiding out. He tries to convince her to change her mind. She won’t. So, he kills her. Nobody wins. The audience typically stands up.

Éist Liom is an experimental short film that fuses this iconic operatic story with new music, the Irish language and surreal imagery.

Set on a box set, on a stage, in a theatre in Dublin, the film borrows from the theatrical tropes of the original source material. Creating a paradigm where the cyclical nature of theatre and live performance speaks to the toxic and violent loop that Carmen and Don José have been trapped in for hundreds of years now.

With Éist Liom, One Two One Two and Shaun Dunne have collaborated once more, bringing their Irish language triptych of films to a close following the award winning premieres of DÚIRT TÚ (you said) and Tar Anseo (come here).