Arts Life - Brian Cronin

What I do: Filmmaker

Favourite café:

I have favourite pubs, not cafés.

Current listening:

Just discovering the old Tom Waits album Rain Dogs.

The last gig I attended:

The last memorable one was Bonnie Prince Billy at the Opera House.

The last book I read: Ablutions by Patrick deWitt.

My last trip to the theatre:

Bill Griffin’s play Betrayal at the Wandesford Quay Gallery

The last exhibition I attended:

David Hockney at the Royal Academy in London.

My favourite film:

I’ll say The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

My favourite writer/artist/musician:

My brain can’t process an answer to that question.

My favourite work of art:

The Brown Cloud by my friend Brian McElroy, he’s very shy about his work, only a handful of people have seen this piece but it’s incredible.

My favourite venue:

Charlie’s Bar in Cork.

The writer/artist/musician I would most like to meet:

I’d kill three birds with one stone and meet David Lynch.

Bio: Brian Cronin is a filmmaker from Cork. He has made several short films including the RTÉ funded Fond of a Moth which opened the Cork Film Festival last year and has screened at many international film festivals as well as on RTÉ. He has made music videos for acts such as Pavlov’s Dogs and Mick Flannery.

Upcoming event: At 7.30pm Friday evening Fond of a Moth will be screened at the Wandesford Quay Gallery in Cork, followed by Bill Griffin performing his play Betrayal. Griffin will also perform his play at The Temperance Hall, Kinsale at 8pm Saturday, Sept 29, in conjunction with an exhibition of his paintings at The Gallery — both in aid of Breakthrough Cancer Research, www.breakthroughcancerresearch.ie