On being there is a filmic encounter with the material and outputs of the office of Tom dePaor. The earliest project represented here is from 1991, and the film spans 30 years to include a project at Dysart, Co. Wicklow. There is the place itself. There are notebooks, drawings, prints, scale models, 35mm slides, photographs, films, files. A diversity of materials and media, evidencing significant technological changes in production and reproduction. Photographs, books, writing, and films are often made to parallel or complete each work. This is the raw material of the film. The film enacts an encounter with this material, exploiting the characteristics of its generation, storage and documentation. It is presented in 5 episodes or chapters which loosely correlate with ideas of the island, the vessel, the house, the hut and the fence. Projects are titled by address, and dated by completion.