2024

Thanatophobia
Experimental films from South to North
Filmform
Stockholm, Sweden

SMILEY WILEY
Out of Focus Film Festival
The Watergate Theatre
Kilkenny, Ireland

SMOLT
Out of Focus Film Festival
The Watergate Theatre
Kilkenny, Ireland

95B - World Premiere
Phantoscope Film Series,
Triskel Arts Centre,
Cork, Ireland

2023

EXT. CANAL - DAY
La Bete Rousse
Itinerant Cinema
France

Thanatophobia
Analogica 13
WAAG
Bolzano, Italy

Thanatophobia
Kinoscop 5
Belgrade, Serbia

Thanatophobia
Riga International Film Festival
Riga, Latvia

EXT. CANAL - DAY
CineSalon, The Guesthouse
Cork, Ireland

Thanatophobia
CineSalon, The Guesthouse
Cork, Ireland

Thanatophbia
Baltic Experimental Programme
Vagonu Hall
Riga, Latvia


2022

BLACK GOLD
16mm Film Festival
Harkat Studios,
Mumbai, India

BLACK GOLD - World Premiere
4th Kinoscop Intl. Festival of Analog Exp. Cinema
Belgrade, Serbia

EXT. CANAL - DAY - World Premiere
Octopus Marquee Independent Online Film Festival,
USA

Autumnal Sleeps
FLIGHT / Mostra internazionale di cinema
Genova, Italy

Thanatophobia,
25FPS Festival,
Zagreb, Croatia

Autumnal Sleeps
BUTFF: B-Movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival,
Breda, Holland

Autumnal Sleeps
Liverpool Underground Film Festival
Liverpool, UK

Autumnal Sleeps
Aurora Film Festival
Cinema Arena Aurora
San Potito Sannitico, Italy

Thanatophobia
Baltic Analog Lab Program
SODAS 2123
Vilnius, Lithuania

Autumnal Sleeps
Sacramento Underground Film and Arts Festival,
Sacramento, California, USA

Thanatophobia - World Premiere
with Ieva Balode
Cupola Hall,
Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga

I'm not a doctor
EFS Short Film Programme
Wolf Kino
Berlin, Germany

Hung, Drawn and Quartered
EFS - German Irish Film Summit
Kino Moviemento
Berlin, Germany

Autumnal Sleeps
Balkan Can Kino
ZOETROPE
Athens, Greece

2021

Autumnal Sleeps
16mm Film Festival
Harkat Studios
Mumbai, India

Autumnal Sleeps
Istanbul Intl. Experimental Film Festival
Istanbul, Turkey

Autumnal Sleeps
FERATUM Intl Fantastic Film Festival
Mexico City

Autumnal Sleeps
Dreamers of Dreams Film Festival
VOD, London, UK

The Poorhouse Revisted
Octopus Marquee Independent Film Festival
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

The most popular things in the world to do:
WORLD PREMIERE
FLIGHT / Mostra internazionale di cinema
Genova, Italy

Autumnal Sleeps - Closing Film
Process Experimental Film Festival,
Riga, Latvia

Autumnal Sleeps
KINAM, Festival Internacional de Cinema Diferente
FILMINLATINO / Mexican Inst. of Cinematography
Mexico City

Luminous Void : 20 years of EFS
Book Launch / Exhibtion / Screenings
Autumnal Sleeps & Hung, Drawn and Quartered (Loop)
The Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ire

Autumnal Sleeps
Denver Underground Film Festival (DUFF)
Denver, Colorado, USA

Autumnal Sleeps
Fisura, Int. Festival of Experimental Film & Video
Mexico City

EFS Showcase
Kino ARMATA, Pristina, Kosovo

Drifting Cities
The Film and Video Symposium
Los Angeles, California,USA

2020

Olive
VASTLAB Experimental Film Festival
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Autumnal Sleeps
Festival Transterritorial de Cine Under
Buenos Aires, Argentina

I'm Not a Doctor
EFS Program 2
Kino ARMATA, Pristina, Kosovo

I'm Not a Doctor
Engauge Experimental Film Festival
Seattle, WA, USA

Olive
FLIGHT / Mostra internazionale di cinema
Genova, Italy

Drifting Cities
WINNER Best Film / Innovative Language Section
FLIGHT / Mostra internazionale di cinema
Genova, Italy

Autumnal Sleeps
OFFICIAL SELECTION In Competition
Lausanne Underground Film Festival (LUFF)
Lausanne, Switzerland

Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF)
Milwaukee, USA

Autumnal Sleeps
Bogota Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia
Bogota, Columbia

Autumnal Sleeps
Festival Ecra IV
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ghoul
Festival Internacional de Cine de Terror
Valencia, Spain

Olive
Berlin Revolution Film Festival
Berlin, Germany

I'm Not a Doctor
Kampus Hybernska,
Prague, Czech Republic

Autumnal Sleeps
Pugnant Film Series
Xorostasio, Athens

2019

I'm Not a Doctor
Kinoskop International Film Festival
Belgrade, Serbia.

Ghoul
EFS Programme
Sound Collector,
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ire

WORLD PREMIERE
Autumnal Sleeps
Luminous Void Experimental Film Festival
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ire

Olive
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival,
Istanbul, Turkey

Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Esto Es Para Esto
Monterrey, Mexico

Hung Drawn and Quartered
LUFF 2019
Lausanne, Switzerland.

Olive
21e Festival des Cinemas Differents
et Experimentaux,
Paris, France.

Olive
EFS Programme 2
Cinemateca de Curitiba,
Matriz, Curitiba,
Brazil

Olive
EFS Programme
Kino Klub Split,
Split, Croatia.

Drifting Cities
Esto Es Para Esto
Cineteca Nuevo Leon
Monterrey City,
Mexico

Olive
EFS Programme
Rudina Art Fair,
Galerija Solyard,
Hvar Island,
Croatia

Olive
EFS Programme
Hosek Contemporary
Berlin, Germany

Olive
EFS Programme
HIJACK!
18 Bleeker St,
New York City, USA

Olive
EFS Programme
Taipei Contemporary Art Centre,
Taipei, Taiwan

Ghoul & Olive
EFS Programme
Moving Bodies Festival
Teatro Espace
Turin, Italy

Olive
EFS Programme
Departamento Social Club,
Santiago, Chile

Olive
EFS Programme
VERTIGO Arts,
Tbilisi, Georgia

Olive
EFS Programme
Muestra Internacional de Cine Experimental,
Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador Ulises Estrella
Quito, Ecuador

2018

Drifting Cities
Luminous Void Experimental Film Festival, LVEFF18
The New Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

The Family Vault of the Late James Hyland
ViDEOSKiN, The Edge Gallery,
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

Drifting Cities
EFS Programme
Fedaxv - Festival de Diseño
Audiovisual Experimental de Valdiva, Chile

The Family Vault of the Late James Hyland
EFS Programme
Filmwerkplaats, WORM Rotterdam, Holland

The Family Vault of the Late James Hyland EFS Programme The Cinematography & Alternative Art Festival Nida, Lithuania

Drifting Cities
Cámara Lúcida – Encuentros Cinematográficos,
Cuenza, Equador

The Poorhouse Revisted
Cefalu Film Festival,
Cefalu, Italy

ICE - EFS Programme
Process Experimental Film Festival
Riga, Latvia

The Family Vault of The Late James Hyland
I Am an Instrument - A Night of Outsider Art
Stage 19, Dublin, Ireland

Drifting Cities
EFS Programme Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador
Ulises Estrella Casa de la Cultura Ecutoriana Ecuador

Folds of Existence - EFS Programme
The Family Vault of James Hyland
American Medium, New York, USA

2017

The Family Vault of James Hyland
EFS Short Film Programme
ULTRAcinema
San Juan Aquiahuac
San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, Mexico 

Heaven's Hole / The Poorhouse Revisited / JUNK
EFS Short Film Programme
LUFF Lausane Underground Film & Music Festival Lausanne, Switzerland

Drifting Cities
IMAGINE Arts Festival,
Waterford, Ireland

FEDAEVX - EFS Programme
The Family Vault of the Late James Hyland
Festival de Diseno Audiovisual Experimental Valdiva Valdiva, Chile

Funnel Web Family
Sonic Dreams Festival
Waterford, Ireland

Out of Service
EFS Short Film Programme
Kino Klub Split,
Croatia

SMOLT
Irish Film Institute (IFI)
Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland

EFS Carcass Prog. Akephalos
Gallery of Modern Art Waterford (GOMA),
Waterford, Ireland

Painting / The Poorhouse Revisited
EFS Short Film Programme
El Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá / CineAutopsia Bogotá, Colombia

EFS - Carcass Prog. Relics Pelikula Obskura
UP Film Institute Film Studio,
Quezon City, Philipines

EFS - Carcass Prog. Homo Ferox / Corpus Rex
Auditório Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett
Porto, Portugal

SMOLT
Irish Film Festival, Middletown Arts Center,
New Jersey, USA

Drifting Cities - World Premiere
PROCESS Experimental Film Festival Kino Bize,
Riga, Latvia

Love Me Longer
Autobiographical Rituals - Vorspiel/Transmediale Greenhouse Berlin, Germany

Recent Transmissions
Strange Attractor (live sound) / EFS (undead images)
St. Peter's Church, Cork, Ire

2016

The Poorhouse Revisited (15mins cut)
1st Edition Berlin Experimental film Festival Moviemento, Kreuzberg, Berlin.

EFS @ Maus Habitos – Espaço de Intervenção Cultural (Funnel Web Family)
Porto, Portugal

Murder
Post Mortem International Short Film Festival Aguascalientes, Mexico

EFS Short Film Programme (Heaven's Hole)
Glass Eye Cine Club
Belfast Barge, NIreland

AT ONE FELL SWOOP
North American Premiere
MOVIATE Underground Film Festival
Harrisburg, PA, USA

STONE BOAT EXHAUSTED Luminous Void,
An EFS Exhibition Triskel Project Space,
Cork City, Ireland

AEMI presents EFS; Collectivism (Part 3)
(Funnel Web Family) Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland

STONE BOAT EXHAUSTED
Edge Hunters, Anseo
Dublin, Ireland

EFS Presents INDECENT MATERIALS
(Heaven's Hole) Curated by Dean Kavanagh
Filmbase Dublin, Ireland

Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep
Canada International Film Festival
Vancouver, Canada

EFS Short Film Programme
(Funnel Web Family) Gardunha Fest,
Histérico - Associacao de Artes Moagem / Fundão / Portugal

AT ONE FELL SWOOP
Lumière 2016 - 6th CinemAvvenire Film Festival
Rome, Italy

EFS Short Film Programme
(Funnel Web family)
Auditório de Cinemateca Museu de Arte Moderna,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

STONE BOAT EXHAUSTED
Filmbase,
Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland.

AT ONE FELL SWOOP
Eksperimentālā Kino Vakari III - Kino Bize
Riga, Latvia

2015

AT ONE FELL SWOOP
Firestone International Experimental Film Festival Moscow, Russia

Love Me Longer & Murder
Eksperimentala Kino Vakari Kino Bize,
Riga, Latvia

SMOLT
Mongolia International Film Festival
Los Angeles, USA

SMOLT
The Progressive Film Club The New Theatre,
Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland

AT ONE FELL SWOOP
Collectif Jeune Cinema Les Voûtes
Paris, France

EFS Short Film Programme + Q&A
(HOTEL & Painting)
Cinematheque @ Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran

EFS Short Film Programme + Q&A
(Out of Service & Filament)
Darblast Platform
Tehran, Iran

EFS Short Film Programme
(Filament)
Laevardi Foundation
Tehran, Iran

AT ONE FELL SWOOP
The Five Glens Arts Festival Manorhamilton,
NLeitrim, Ireland

EFS Short Film Programme
Open Night Cinema, Dublin, Ireland

At One Fell Swoop
Phantoscope,
Triskel Christchurch Cinema,
Cork, Ireland

At One Fell Swoop (with STONE BOAT)
Open Night Cinema,
Dublin, Ireland

EFS Presents...
At One Fell Swoop
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Dublin, Ireland

Absenses an (Im)possibilities - LUX Programme (04:59) Belfast Film Festival,
Belfast, NIreland

EFS Short Film Program
(Murder)
Repressed Cinema
The Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR, USA

EFS Short Film Programme
(Murder)
Kinodromo, Bologna, Italy

Absenses an (Im)possibilities - LUX Programme
(04:59)
XCÉNTRIC - Centre de Cultura Contemporánia
Barcelona, Spain

SMOLT
Glasgow Independent Film Festival
Clockwork Film Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

The Poorhouse Revisited
Under Your Skin Film Festival Korova Arts Cafe Bar, Lancashire, UK

Absenses an (Im)possibilities - LUX Programme
(04:59)
Union Theatre, Milwaukee, USA

SMOLT / Some Must Watch...
Pantalla Fantasma 4 Peurta,
Bilbao, Basque Country

Absenses an (Im)possibilities - LUX Programme
(04:59)
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland

2014

EFS Short Film Programme Limited Access Film festival,
Tehran, Iran

Absenses an (Im)possibilities - LUX Programme
(04:59)
Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo, Norway

Absenses an (Im)possibilities - LUX Programme
(04:59)
Irish Film Festival London, England

EFS Short Film Programme
Sessões do Udigrudi, São Paulo, Brazil

EFS Short Film Programme
Studio 6 Open Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (1/6)
Dublin, Ireland

EFS Short Film Programme
Fronteira International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Goiás, Brazil

Solus Film Collective and Loft Project Etagi present
Irish Experimental Cinema,
Saint-Petersburg, Russia

The Poorhouse Revisited (15mins Cut)
HAXAN Festival
Oakland, CA, USA

EFS Short Film Programme
The Picture Show,
Greenpoint, NY, USA

SMOLT - Dublin Premiere
Hendron's Collider
Dublin, Ire

2013

EFS / Birds on a Wire
New Irish Underground Film
Spectacle Theatre,
Brooklyn, New York

EFS / Seesound Performance with Karen Power
Cork Film Centre Gallery, Ballincollig, Co. Cork

SMOLT - World Premiere Indie Cork Film Festival Gate Cinema, Cork, Ire EFS incl.

Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep IFI & EFC: Spectres of Memory Irish Film Institute, Dublin, Ire

Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep The Moot Art and Music Festival Parliment St, Kilkenny, Ire

Funnel Web Family FPS#06 Floor Plan PLUG Projects, Kansas City, USA Away,

The Gardener, Hotel, Painting Experimental Film Society Ormston House, Limerick, Ire

The Poorhouse Revisited - 15mins Cut The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany

2012

Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep
Corona Cork Film Festival, Cork Film Centre Gallery, Ballincollig, Cork, Ire

Concrete Walls + 2 Shorts
The Guesthouse, Cork, Ire

The Poorhouse Revisited
Hunter's Moon Festival, Carrick on Shannon, Ire

The Poorhouse Revisited
Galway Film Fleadh, Ire

EFS Screening - The Last of Deductive Frames Seomra Spraoi 10 Belvedere Court, Dublin, Ire

Super 8mm Star Wars - Installation
LINK Culture Fest,
Block B, Smithfield, Dublin 7, Ire

The Poorhouse Revisited - 60min Cut with 16mm Installation.
LINK Culture Fest,
HENDRONS Gallery, Dominick St Upper, Dublin, Ire

EFS Screening
Cork Film Centre,
Civic Trust House, 50 Pope's Quay, Cork, Ire

Concrete Walls Friends of (An)Other Irish Cinema
The University of Philippines Film Institute,
The Philippines

Landslide
Director's Lounge
Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin, Germany

Concrete Walls Hotel / Love Me Longer / There is a Man in the Habit...
International SFF London, LCC, Elephant and Castle, London, Eng

Love Me Longer
Underground Cinema Screening Part IV
The Kingston Hotel
Dun Laoighaire, Co. Dublin, Ire

The Poorhouse Revisited
with live musical accompanient by Brian Conniffe, Suzanne Walsh & Diarmuid MacDiarmada
Curated by Tadhg O'Sullivan.
The Joinery Gallery, Arbour Hill, Dublin, Ire

2011

Fractured Climates - Expanded Cinema Project HENDRONS (Satellite Studios & Loom Studios)
Hendrons Gallery, Dominick St Upper, Dublin, Ire

Roadside Picnic - Excerpt
Generation for Export: Life with Edits
The Joinery Gallery, Arbour Hill, Dublin, Ire

The Petrol Station
Seeing the Light Exhibition
TACTIC Gallery, Sullivan's Quay, Cork, Ire

VAT 7 & The Petrol Station
EFS at Festival CineB City of Santiago, Chile

Landslide, The Petrol Station & The Sun Disappears Darklight Film Festival,
The Factory, Barrow St, Dublin, Ire

Where To?
Experimental Film Society - Screening
Cafe Kino, Bristol, Eng

Hotel, The Gardener & Love Me Longer
Experimental Film Society (Premier Screening)
Hello Operator, Dublin City, Ireland.

Painting
Super 8 Shots.
The Festival Kelly's, Galway City, Ireland.

The Gardener, Landslide
Filmmaker Showcase
Old Bridge Library New Jersey.

The Petrol Station Cont. Art and the Moving Image
QFT Cinema, Belfast, NIreland.

Cont. Art and the Moving Image
Galway Arts Centre, Galway City, Ireland.

Sensorium Festival,
CMC, Dublin, Ireland

Headless Queens - Sound Sculpture
UNIT 35
Gorey, Co. Wexford, Ireland

girl meets boy
Shebeen Flick,
Shebeen Chic, Georges St, Dublin 2, Ireland

2010

POPPOPPOP
10.10.10, One Day on Earth,
onedayonearth.org

Buildings and Airplanes
Phizzfest, Phibsboro, Dublin, Ireland

Midnight with No Pain
ICCL Human Rights Competition, Dublin, Ireland

Trumpet City
Dublin Film Fringe, Ireland

Battered Sausage and Chips
Culture Night, Mullingar, West Meath, Ireland

girl meets boy
Checkpoint,
Block T, Smithfield, Dublin, Ireland

2009

Happy Days
Exchange Reel, Exchange Dublin, Ireland

Trips the Light Fantastic
Sydney Underground Film Festival,
Australia

Trips the Light Fantastic
Galway Film Fleadh Fringe, Galway Ireland

A Life Inside the Frame
ICCL Human Rights Competition, Dublin Ireland

140
‘140’ Collaboratve Film Project. Worldwide

2008

Kenny
Cannonball Run, DCTV, Dublin, Ireland

2007

Pursuit Fast Forward at Darklight Festival, Dublin, Ireland Retirement Waterford Film Festival, Waterford, Ireland A Life Inside the Frame Waterford Film Festival, Waterford, Ireland

2006

There is a Man...
Future Shorts, Dublin, Ireland

From Our Hearts
Sligo Digital Animation Festival, Sligo, Ireland

2005

There is a Man...
Best of Straight 8,
Leicester Square, England

2024

Honorable Mention
LA Underground Film Forum
95B

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Project Award

2022

WINNER Best Experimental Feature
Autumnal Sleeps
Sacramento Underground Film and Arts Festival
California, USA

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Project Award

2021

WINNER Best film / Student Jury
The most popular things in the world to do:
FLIGHT / Mostra internazionale del cinema di Genova
Genova, Italy

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Agility Award

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Professional Development Award

2020

WINNER Best film / Innovative Language Section
Drifting Cities
Mostra internazionale del cinema di Genova, Italy

OFFICIAL SELECTION In Competition
Autumnal Sleeps
Lausanne Underground Film Festival (LUFF)
Lausanne, Switzerland

Koumaria Residency - Medea Electronique,
Sellasia, Greece

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Bursary Award

2019

Koumaria Residency - Medea Electronique, Sellasia, Greece

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Project Award

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Bursary Award

2018

La Devignere Residency with The Underworld Orchestra
Lussac, France 

Koumaria Residency - Medea Electronique, Sellasia, Greece

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Project Award

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Bursary Award

2016

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Bursary Award

2015

Kooshk Residency in association with EFS,
Tehran, Iran

2014

dFlux Research Residency,
Detroit, MI, USA

SMOLT
Award of Merit from The Indie Fest
La Jolla, California, USA

2013

Recipient of The Irish Arts Council's Film Project Award

SMOLT
Winner of Innovation in Irish Feature Filmmaking
IndieCork, Cork, Ire

2012

Concrete Walls
Winner of Best Soundtrack
Nominated for Best Cinematography
International Student Film Festival London, Eng

2010

Midnight with No Pain
2nd Place, ICCL Film Competition, Dublin, Ireland
Audience Award, ICCL Film Competition, Dublin, Ire

2009

Happy Days
Best Film, Crewger 48Hr Film Festival, Dublin, Ire

2008

Kenny
2nd Place, Cannonball Run, DCTV, Dublin, Ire


2007

Pursuit
2nd Place, Fast Forward Film Festival, Dublin, Ire

A Life Inside the Frame
Best Animation, Waterford Film Festival, Ire


2006

From Our Hearts
Best Creative Video, DCU Hybrid Awards, Dublin, Ire

Theory of Everything
2nd Place, Fast Forward Film Festival, Dublin, Ire

2005
There is a Man...
3rd Place, Silent Light Film Festival, Cork, Ire