{"id":305275,"date":"2026-02-27T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305275\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:59:08","slug":"u2-attend-world-premiere-of-new-guggi-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305275\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 attend world premiere of new Guggi documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton were among the guests at the world premiere of a new documentary film about Irish artist Guggi in Dublin on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Director Jim Sheridan, singer Gavin Friday and Dublin City Councillor Mannix Flynn also attended the Dublin International Film Festival event at the Light House Cinema in Smithfield.<\/p>\n

\"Artist
\nGuggi<\/p>\n

Directed by Irish filmmaker and photographer Ian Thuillier and co-produced by Gabriella Janni, Guggi is described as “an intimate and deeply personal portrait” of Derek “Guggi” Rowen.<\/p>\n

Thuillier is known for his award-winning documentary work, including Ghost Blues: The Rory Gallagher Story and his RT\u00c9 Arts Lives portrait Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Gavin Friday.<\/p>\n

He followed Guggi over multiple years with unprecedented access to his home life, studio, and creative process.<\/p>\n

\"Guggi\"
\nGavin Friday, Guggi and Bono<\/p>\n

The synopsis of the new film reads, “Rising from the anarchic post-punk energy of Dublin’s late-1970s Virgin Prunes, Guggi left performance behind to successfully follow his spiritual artistic calling where he developing a distinctive language centred on vessels – bowls, jugs and other everyday containers – which recur as both motif and metaphor in his paintings and sculptures.<\/p>\n

“Through v\u00e9rit\u00e9 filmmaking, interviews and visual poetry, Guggi captures the tension between chaos and order that defines his work”.<\/p>\n

The documentary features contributions from Guggi\u2019s lifelong friends, including Bono and Gavin Friday, who share memories of their shared upbringing in Dublin, “shaped by religion, poverty and creative rebellion”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton were among the guests at the world premiere of a new documentary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-305275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}