"CLOCH"

Lighting Camera: Joe Comerford

Music: Roger Doyle

"The other outstanding bit of television during last week used no words at all. This was CLOCH, a most imaginative film about sculpture made by Bob Quinn of Cinegael... the film had enormous visual attraction. But what really set it off was the soundtrack, the work of Roger Doyle. He used, instead of words, sounds that ranged from wailing voices to animal noises: whispers, cries, music and the rhythmic tapping of hammers.

 

 

It was extraordinarily impressive as if, at times, he had caught the very sound of the stone suffering under the sculptors hammer. Another aspect of this most pleasing film was it showed very clearly how much patient, physically-exhausting, slogging work goes into sculpture in stone". - Irish Times

 

In the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.

 

 

Con Tempo goes West  Music documentary on the ConTempo String Quartet and their impact as Galway's Ensemble-in-Residence, 2003-2006 (col. 50 mins)

1996

2000

"Splanc Deireadh na Gaeltachta"   Last Spark of the Gaeltacht   History of the Civil Rights movement in Galway, with Donncha O h-Éallaithe  (Gael Media, Subtitled, 50 mins)

1999

"It Must Be Done Right"

Documentary:

FEATURING Donal McCann

- 'the world's greatest actor (Newsweek)' .

His last public performance.

Prod. De Facto films (Colour, 50 mins)

1997

THEY'LL NEVER SHOW THAT!

Renowned investigative journalist Joseph Mac Anthony details how he revealed corruption in the Dublin Planning Process and had to leave Ireland with his family for Canada. In conversation with Bob Quinn. (2006)

1992

1987

Pobal in LONDON

(6 x 30 mins)

In nineteen-eighties London there was a building boom which involved much demolition and site clearance. Enormous amounts of rubbish had to be removed, legally or illegally...

"The Fly-tippers"

1975<br >

1978

"Listen!" 

Experimental, with composer Roger Doyle

(col. 27 mins)

"Last Days of the Gaeltacht

(Spirit of the Festival Award - Celtic Film Festival)

With Desmond Fennell

1979

"CRUINNIÚ NA MBÁD"

The re-enactment of the traditional turf-carrying trade between Conamara and Kinvara. It had been thirty years since Johnny Jimmy MacDonncha sailed his 'Maighdean Mhara" to Kinvara. He re-enacted the voyage with his sons in 1979 and thus began the ongoing 'Cruinniú na mBád' Festival.

(Colour, 27 mins)