Nephin Subs

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. 

“Provided you follow all the parts, even the coldest corpse will thaw!”

Credits

An East London Cable & Grey Moth production
Director: Jos Bitelli
Executive Producer: Louis Brown
Producers: Alisha Fryer, Archie Sinclair
1st AD: Amy Coop
DOP: Lou Macnamara
Sound Designer: Dominic Kennedy
Art Directors: Fionnuala Kennedy, Giorgia Lee Joseph
Costume Designer: Izzi Valentine
Editors: Cath Shayler, Jos Bitelli
1st AC: Jade Jenkins
Gaffer / Desk Op: Katie Iles-Spencer
Spark: Arjun Cattaree
Electrical Riggers: George Castle, James Hawkins, Danny Hollowell
Rigging Desk Op: Conor Vennard
Electrical Trainee: Ibiwunmi Balogun
Hair and Makeup: Bea Sloss
Sound Recordist: Sam King
Character Double: Zuleika Lavender
Runner/BTS: Nadira Sharifa
Medical video: Jude Iago James
Graphic Designer: Mikala Georgia Grante
Catering: Leon Tudor 
Driver: Jordan Stephens

Filmed at London Performance Studios

Supported by Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant funding

Special thanks to Focus Canning, Optical Support, Pixi Pixel, Raven Row, Poppy Moroney, Nikki Tomlinson, Montez Press Radio, Caliesse Witham, Malvinka Bitelli, Pete Hambling.

Dates and Times

Nephin Subs + Q&A
Thu 24 April 2025 / 7.30 PM

Tickets

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Location

Studio 1, London Performance Studios
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About

Fionnuala Kennedy is a performance artist and musician moving between audio, image and film. Her practice assembles at a juncture between balladry and world-building, using dramaturgic devices such as monologue, meta-theatre, song and gossip. She expands on subjects such as cultural and hereditary estrangement, pastoralism, and the surreal. She is one half of the electronic duo uh, signed to PRAH Recordings. uh make use of embedded narrative, building spheres of modular surreality and liveness against acid techno, experimental electronica and Celtic pop backdrops.

Grey Moth is a film studio bridging the gap between grassroots filmmaking and commercial production. Since 2013 they have delivered meaningful content to clients from a diverse range of industries including the educational sector, media, esports, luxury retail, and the arts. They’ve made work for the BBC, Chanel, Universal Music, Asics, University of the Arts London and the Royal Horticultural Society. In 2020, they launched Grey Moth Originals, an initiative where profits are invested directly in emerging talent, original ideas and their community.

Jos Bitelli is co-founding member of East London Cable, a project that helped her pivot from making art films as an artist to working on all kinds of films as a cinematographer. Her recent projects include Nephin Subs; Sophia Al Maria’s MiuMiu PFW SS24 commission; ‘TOPS’ dir. by Ames Pennington, which premiered at BFI’s FLARE; and Primal Scream’s latest music video.

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