Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

PROGRAMME ONE

CLOCH

Inspired by Cliodhna Cussen, Cloch is an evocation of the art of stone-carving, drawing on the work of James McKenna and on the Kilkenny sculpture workshop of 1975. Bob Quinn said about the project, “The main aspect that interested me was the physical relationship between a person and inanimate material.”

Dir. Bob Quinn. 30 mins, Ireland, 1975, Digital

PROGRAMME TWO

SELF PORTRAIT WITH RED CAR

Collaborating with Joe Comerford (camera) and Roger Doyle (music), the film finds painter Brian Bourke caught in an absurd acoustic situation in Connemara. Bob Quinn explores how sound controls our visual perception – “take one picture and put 100 different sounds behind it, the picture will assume 100 different meanings.”

Dir. Bob Quinn. 20 mins, Ireland, 1976, Digital

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn.

See also From The Vaults: Cinegael Paradiso, screening in honour of Bob Quinn’s latest book release Count Me Out – Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn.