CineSalon is a quarterly experimental film evening based in the Guesthouse Project Cork City.

The inaugural CineSalon Experimental Film Festival took place in September 2024, presenting a rich programme of shorts, features, talks and live events both in person and online.

CineSalon also plays host to an array of online artist-showcases and screenings.

CineSalon Online Artist #1 - Katie Gerardine O’Neill

CineSalon is thrilled to announce the launch of the CineSalon Online Artist Programme. Each year, CineSalon will stream programmes of film works by six featured artists. Each programme will be available to view free and worldwide for two months.

The first CineSalon Online Artist is Katie Gerardine O’Neill, a multitalented legend of Irish underground art. Based in Dublin, O’Neill works with analogue photography, moving image, digital imagery, sound-collage, writing, performance and more. Her practice is experimental and plays with tangible materials and metaphysical ideas: the unconscious, the void, the idea of a self. Her work touches upon the uncanny, the sublime, and teeters along the imaginary in an attempt to forge a new reality in the midst of absurdity. Her work could be described as a hand reaching out from inside a flower that is engulfed in flames; attempting to grasp the fleeting hand of the Other, unsure of how the gesture will be received. O’Neill is influenced by the Dada and Surrealist movements, punk and no-wave, Psychoanalysis, Beckett, and Buddhism.

The following programme will be available to stream until January 15th 2025:

I Drift like a Wave on the Ocean (2024)

An audio-visual poem made from eco hand-developed 35mm film images collaged with music by the artist inspired by Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.

Memento Mori (2020)

Through tableaux, disembodied noise and an opaque weaving together of past and present, we bear witness to a historical retelling situated in an era where nothing is quite what it seems.

Message Green (2020)

An audio-visual poem, exploring the profundity of nature, the necessity of solitude, and the importance of being in touch with one’s inner voice.

Sinthome (2023)

"I speak without knowing it. I speak with my body, and I do so unbeknownst to myself. Thus, I always say more than I know." - Jacques Lacan.

Dream (2022)

An audio-visual poem assembled from hand-developed 35mm film images collaged with music by the artist.

Le Rêve éveillé des Nouilles (2019)

A magical grey cat dozes off in the summer's heat and remembers her strange journey...