TG4 has scheduled a 13 week retrospective of Bob Quinn's work.
Beginning on 27th September at 9.35pm, TG4 will broadcast a series of the filmmakers work ranging from his RTÉ ‘Why Don’t They Shoot People?’ documentary of 1966, up to his modern offerings ‘Vox Humana’ (Notes for a small opera) (2007) and ‘Damhsa an Deoraí’ (The Emigrant Dance) (2004).
Each showing of Bob Quinn’s work will be preceded by an introduction from Quinn himself, in conversation with Irish poet, writer and lecturer Theo Dorgan.
Bob Quinn was born in Dublin and worked as a television producer with RTÉ before an exile to Conamara in 1969 and the foundation of film and video company Cinegael with Seosamh Ó Cuaig and Toni Cristofides.
The TG4 series will open with Quinn’s first programme made in Conamara, ‘Fág an Bealach’. Made in 1973, it focused on Coláiste Ros Muc where a military ethos inspired by the practice of military formations and parades. Other Quinn programme’s to be aired include part one of his four-part North African Odyssey ‘Antlantean’, which sees Quinn travelling to ‘Celtic’ countries and North Africa to discover the origins of Conamara sean-nós singing. Fiction films to be shown include disturbing film about a Donegal household ‘The Family’ and a classic comedy about the evils of moonshine ‘Poitín’.
The first TX also includes ‘Why Don’t They Shoot People’ which will screen after ‘Fág an Bealach’ at 10.05pm.
The Bob Quinn productions will continue to show on Tuesday evenings on TG4 at 9.35pm, finishing on December 20th with Quinn’s recent work on the music of the Galway Baroque Singers ‘Vox Humana’ (Notes for a small opera).
