CineSalon Experimental Film Festival grew out of CineSalon, a quarterly experimental film screening event that has taken place at The Guesthouse Project, Cork since June 2023. This is an archive of all CineSalon events.

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...

CineSalon Experimental Film Festival 2024
A celebration of personal, poetic and formally experimental filmmaking, CineSalon's inaugural Experimental Film Festival presented an in-person programme of screenings and events in Cork City, Ireland (September 13th – 15th) and an extensive online screening programme worldwide (September 14th – 27th).
CineSalon gratefully acknowledge the support of our venue partners:

CineSalon 5
Programme:
Between a rock and soft place (Caoilfhinn Geary)
I Used To Be (Christina Bennett)
rorriM esreveR (Katie Gerardine O'Neill)
Arcadia (Katie Gerardine O'Neill)
The Apple (Katie Gerardine O'Neill)
SLEEPless CHILD (Norah Dineen)
The Tommy Tomato Show (Shells Le Cain)
plus sponsor commercials by Greenface Curtiz

CineSalon 4
Programme:
Inside My Memories (Asha Murray)
The Ground (burke)
Up North (burke)
Try Try Again (Vicki Davis)
Basement Cabaret (Natasha Bourke)
Did You Miss It? (Lawrence Cook)
Alicia (Juana Robles)

CineSalon 3
Programme:
Unseen Guest (Sarah Corcoran)
Account No. 944 (Laurie Shaw)
Organic Shrapnel (Owen Kilfeather)
Blood in the Butter (Shelly Sarah Kamiel)
Hour of the Ox (Bob Gallagher)
and a live film performance by Artem Trifomenko

CineSalon 2
Programme:
Cinema is... (Chris O'Neill)
AI ken Haiku (Eavan Aiken)
Collision-Overlap-Formation (Arran Tenzin Bradstock)
Serra San Bruno (Helen Horgan)
EXT.CANAL- DAY (Michael Higgins)
I Wake Up Screaming (Chris O'Neill)
Thanatophobia (Ieva Balode & Michael Higgins)
Rinse: Repeat (Shelly Sarah Kamiel)

Cine Salon
Programme:
Fever [The Daily Fray] (Sarah Ellen Lundy)
The Sang Bowl (Natasha Bourke)
The Black Umbrella (Benjamin Burns)
The Portal (Benjamin Burns)
Quiddity (Artem Trofimenko)
...at large under the sun... (Maximilian Le Cain)
The Pupil (Sarah Ellen Lundy)
Return to the River (Artem Trofimenko / Sophia Santabarbara / Senan O'Connor)
The Chase (Aisling O Connell)
Angel (Aisling O Connell)