(2024, 50 minutes)
A year in the life of the Sightless Cinema audio drama network, as they embark on their biggest show to date. The Sightless Cinema network is a group of blind and visually impaired people who create audio dramas for performance in theatres and cinemas. Director Gareth Stack followed Sightless Cinema as they rehearsed and performed their new show across Ireland. Members of the group candidly discuss their sight loss and how their lives have been shaped by blindness.
(2026, 10 mins)
DOP – Joesph Ingersol
In this dark fable for our AI age, a young boy is left alone with the only friend he has in the world – a smart speaker named ‘Sophia’.
Sophia is not an evil computer, she’s just a little robot who can’t love him back. When Jack tells Sophia what she means to him, he
finally has to confront the reality that nobody hides beneath her plastic shell.
Produced in collaboration with award winning stop-motion company Studio 9, ‘The Babysitter’ examines how we have come to rely on AI, not just as tools, but as colleagues, as friends, as family.
although YOU KEEP INSISTING, I REFUSE TO ADMIT I AM THE STINKBUG
(2026, 13 mins)
Communism, infidelity, reincarnation, and cannibals with a taste for orthodox priests; all come together in this surreal, darkly humorous short. ‘Although you keep insisting I refuse to admit I am the stinkbug’, is film about people in impossible situations confronting the realisation that they are God, and of course so is the stinkbug.
Filmed on location in Rural Georgia, as part of the Caucasus Cinema Residency, writer director Gareth Stack collaborated with four emerging Cinematographers to bring this philosophical short to life.
DOPs – Nazgul Khalelova, Yarema Holota, Jakob Gehrmann, Karl Neubart, Max Knoop
Original Soundtrack – Aæthan Eldar Leivi
(2026, 7 mins)
Writer-director Gareth Stack explores the intersections of gender, geography, and ritual in Breath of the Mountain, an ethnographic short, filmed in the remote Racha-Lechkhumi region of rural Georgia. The film documents an arduous expedition to a sacred summit near the town of Oni, a place where ascent is permitted exclusively to boys and men.
Stack uses this steep ascent to map the contours of his own familial lineage, drawing parallels between inherited intergenerational trauma and the physical trials of the ascent. Set against a landscape layered with both Orthodox Christian and animist traditions, the film functions as a sensory interrogation of masculinity, endurance, and the shared, laboured breath of men.
A moth is not a kind of butterfly
(2026, 9 mins)
DOP – Owen Behan
Reanna’ (Lea Maas), a socially isolated autistic woman lives alone as a hoarder. She earns a meagre wage working is a yard operator in a run down warehouse, for a demanding boss (‘Ronan O’Leary’). After an impromptu hookup with a charismatic stranger ‘Richard’ (Patrick Caroline), Reanna becomes fixated – imagining the relationship they might have had.
The film was inspired by the rejection sensitivity experienced by many neurodiverse people. These experiences are beyond the scope of ordinary ‘heartbreak’, and can be debilitating and destabalising emotionally and psychologically. This film is rooted in the directors own experiences dealing with love and loss.
(2025, 7 mins)
Two local scallywags dare each other to commit an increasingly severe series of crimes.
Cast – Jack ‘Conky’ Concannon, Kane ‘Fatz’ Shortt, Finbar Coady , and Calum Foy.
Shot and edited in 48 hours at the Offline Film Festival.
Debuting at Healdsburg International Short Film Festival in LA, September 2026.
(2025, 5 mins)
A modern ‘video nasty’, accomplice is a visually driven short that follows a serial killer and his accomplice as they travel into the Dublin mountains for their first kill.
Cast – Sunny Cooling, Hubert Wozniak, Ronan Conlan
DOP – Peter Demidou
Original Music – Hollow Frames
Screening at Louth Film Festival in September.
(2025, 10 mins)
A short doc exploring the work of the animation company Studio 9 as they prepare a film for the Irish expo in Osaka. Joe Coveney and John O’Connell discuss their lives and the work of their Dublin 7 based stop motion film studio.
Featuring an original sound track by Derek Byrne.
WHAT IS LOST CAN NEVER BE FOUND
(2024, 10 minutes)
This moody, atmospheric collaboration between the filmmaker and sound artist Ed Devane and also the 9th-century poet Cynewulf captures a haunting improvised performance at the “Giant’s Tomb” in Ireland. By blending ancient and modern influences, the film embodies a sacrificial dissolution of self within a timeless landscape.
Selected: Debut screening Irish Artists Film Index Summer Programme 2024.
(2024, 10 minutes)
‘Good Boys’ offers a raw and tender exploration of male friendship, desire and insecurity, blending documentary observation with found and constructed footage to challenge conventional depictions of modern masculinity. The film follows two young ‘bros’ as they navigate intimate conversations about vulnerability, sexuality, and connection, in a culture where masculine ideals both traditional and modern, obscure pain and authenticity.
BENEDICTION
(2024, 5 mins)
In Benediction, the filmmaker revisits archival family footage shot in the early 1990s, recontextualizing scenes of everyday life to reveal hidden layers of trauma.
This collaboration with his younger self transforms personal memory into a universal meditation on the nature of family, time, and emotional inheritance.
What lurks under the skin of this ‘normal’ family, paragons of Catholic Ireland? Who are these children and how safe can they be in a place and time not yet awoken to the sins of clerical abuse.
We Saw You from Across the BAR
(2024, 6 mins)
A queer couple have a first date with a potential third. What could go wrong?
Cast – Saskia Corleis, Emma Jayne Devereux, Marina Sunjic
DOP – Ismael Diarra
INTIMACY
(2023, 5 mins)
The power struggle between a director and his intimacy coordinator goes horribly wrong.
Cinematography – Ismael Diarra
AC – Robert Byrne
Makeup / FX – Reda Pinchera
Lilly – Tina Klotz
Donnacha – Aidan O’Sullivan
Jean Baptiste – Fabien Oman
Helen – Anja Schille
Zoe – Reda Pinchera
Special Thanks to… James Galvin SEDA College Nina Mendes Patrick O’Brien, Phil Kidd And all the Kino volunteers Music licensed from Artlist.io
Available on YouTube.
WELL SPUN TALES
(Web shorts, 2019)
A series of short profiles of diverse Dublin cyclists, created to celebrate Velo City Conference in 2019. Produced by Shane Conneely and funded by DDC Arts Office.
Trailer
Watch the series
THE BOX
(2020, 5 minutes)
A profile of the creation of a ‘Dublin Canvas’ box by the graphic designer Nicole O’Connor.
Home For Christmas
(2016, 5 mins)
Set against the backdrop of the ‘Great Recession’. A young man returns to Dublin for his father’s funeral and connected with a homeless woman.
Cast – Dannii Byrne, Sebastian Connellan, Dominik Domresonski
Available on YouTube.
THE LATE GREAT DAVID TURPIN
(2017, 18 minutes)
David Turpin is an Irish lecturer, writer, filmmaker, popstar and eccentric. This film explores David’s curious life and his fascination with death.
My thesis film for the IADT Broadcast Production Masters.
Selected – Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival, Short to the Point.
Watch clip.
LITTLE BLACK LIES
(2016, web series)
How can an undead villain search for love in the age of tinder? What if you were socially awkward and a monster? Join one sexy vampire, OK maybe not that sexy, as he tries to find the love of his life, again, in this willfully anachronistic horror comedy web series.
Cast – James O’Connor, Dannii Byrne, Sebastian Connellan, Dominik Domresonski
Available on YouTube.
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