Jos Bitelli

Nephin Subs is a short film written by artist, performer and musician Fionnuala Kennedy. Mixing personal recollections and fantasy, the film is a surreal account of a journey to the West of Ireland, where the Nephin Beg mountain looms over a three-day wake and funeral. In the lowlands, a cluster of mysterious blowholes are discovered. Their irruptive presence sparks a savage curiosity. In the attempt to find out why they have appeared, the local kinfolk are bolted into a desirous fervour. Thus the age of longing is born. We are led by the eye through many a collective memory and reverie, tracking the internal journey of an estranged world.

An exquisite corpse, the film extends the artist’s interests in the writings of Etel Adnan, the coming present and the personal as political.

Fun, satirical and a pastiche of the chaotic, brash, self-deprecating and clueless 1990s/2000s British reality TV, TOPS sees self-proclaimed future award winning filmmaker Ames Pennington present their landmark faux-documentary. Casting themselves as an invasive TV presenter, Ames goes on a satirical odyssey through the lives and homes of four unique individuals, exploring the crucial question that defines trans masc experience, “What TOP did you wanna wear after TOP surgery?”.