Bob Quinn

Birth : , Dublin, Ireland

History

Bob Quinn is an Irish filmmaker, author, and photographer, perhaps best known for Poitín (1978) and his Atlantean documentary series. He is a member of the Aosdána.

Movies

The Bishop's Story
Writer
During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down.
The Bishop's Story
Director
During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down.
The Family
Director
Bob Quinn’s seminal documentary, deemed too disturbing for television viewers and not broadcast until 10 years after its completion, reveals life inside the Atlantis Commune at Burtonport, Co. Donegal where its members, The Screamers, led by English woman Jenny James, practised Reichian methods of extreme emotional self-expression.
Budawanny
Writer
During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down. Remade as "The Bishop's Story" in 1994.
Budawanny
Director
During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down. Remade as "The Bishop's Story" in 1994.
Atlantean
Director
Documentary about the Irish, dispelling the myth that they are all of pure Celtic heritage, but showing them as the mix of races they really are, and portraying the island not as the remote outpost of Europe most people think it is, but as a busy meeting place for seafaring traders of the Atlantic all through history.
Poitín
Editor
A moonshiner in the west of Ireland tries to avoid the Gardaí.
Poitín
Director
A moonshiner in the west of Ireland tries to avoid the Gardaí.
Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoire
Writer
A group of unruly Irish actors refuse the orders of their British director as he orchestrates a dramatic retelling of the life of Irish rebel Art O’Leary. Intercut with this is the troupe’s performance of O’Leary’s story; parallels between the two narratives quickly mount up.
Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoire
Director
A group of unruly Irish actors refuse the orders of their British director as he orchestrates a dramatic retelling of the life of Irish rebel Art O’Leary. Intercut with this is the troupe’s performance of O’Leary’s story; parallels between the two narratives quickly mount up.