CineSalon Experimental Film Festival 2025
Online Programme
All Online Programmes will be linked from this page December 6th - 21st
CineSalon Online Artist in Focus: Darja Kazimira Zimina
CineSalon’s 2025 Online Artist in Focus is Darja Kazimira Zimina, one of the most refreshingly unique and bracingly visceral talents to have emerged in recent experimental cinema. A director, artist and musician, they were born in Latvia and are currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia. They hold a Master of Spatial Arts and work across film, performance, sound and bodily practices. Their artistic practice delves into ritual, katabasis (symbolic descent) and the making of sacred space—both physically and psychically.
Using improvisation, multi-instrumental performance, and experimental body work, Zimina explores transformation and embodied thresholds between the visible and invisible. Zimina’s video and performance work often incorporates motifs of death, burial, taboo and metamorphosis—grounded in a personal mythology and expressed through abstract, non-linear languages of gesture and sound.
Their practice positions the body itself as site of ritual and the work as an act of erecting a sacred field or container for collective and individual transformation.
Where the Forest Dreams (2025)
The Field of Death (2018)
Medea Forgives Jason (2021)
Ukrainian Folk Tale About the Murdered Sister (2021)
The Sun Omophagous and His Children (2023)
Fuck My Black Holes, They Are Bottomless (2024)
Uzdrawianie (Healing, 2024)
Another Man With a Sword, Don't Try to be Stronger Than My Death (2025)
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Re-Membering (Sophia Felumaz Santabarbara)
Coleoptera (Christie Lynn Blizard)
They Carry Terror Far And Wide (Kevin Casciani Nolan)
We All Disappear Slowly (Jesed Moreno)
Persephone (Jung-Ching Zhou)
Shapeless Variations (Francisco Rojas)
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When Wisdom Speaks; Another Withering Spinal Cord & The Necessity of Purgation (David Matthew Johnson)
Khroma (Fermín Moreno Quintana)
Smoke (Erica Schreiner)
<?> (Xamil Citna)
LOVE (Francesca Fini)
Monument (Jeremy Drummond)
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Write Your Sunlight on My Skin (Billy Palumbo)
Half Halt (Sofia Theodore-Pierce)
Solstice Exercises (Tania Hernández González)
Does Spring Hide Its Joy (Célia Hay)
nearer to thee in a triptych (Matt Whitman)
Flowers for an Old Shrine (Long Pham)
Walking Dog (Xinayi Zhang)
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Palimpsest 1: Now U see Us (Michael Alexander Morris)
Manifesto of Feeble and Bitter Love (Abinadi Meza)
A Poem (Vasilios Papaioannu)
All the Birds Crawl Out of Their Nests (Tommy Aashildrød)
Anomalies in a Landscape (Félix Caraballo)
Self Portrait (decomposed) (Cat Haines)
In My Head (Irina Tempea)
Vanishing Point (Hannu Nieminen)
Aerial (Aida Berisha)
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I’m Here Live, I’m Not a Human (Flâneuse du Mal)
All Windows Look Inward (i. fredericks)
WILLIAMBABE (Tianjiao Wang)
Before the Freeze, Final Cut 8 (Tenley Eakin Raj)
The Blob (Mahda Purmehdi & Cesar Herrejon)
Winesploitation (Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz)
REFUSE (Merch). does not seperate itself. (Stuart Geelon)
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Pictures of a Negative Chair (Magdalena Bermudez)
Ici loin / Here Afar (Ghada Sayegh)
Enxofre / Sulfur (Karen Akerman & Miguel Seabra Lopes)
Augmented (Raymond (Ray) Rea)
Ode to RG Springsteen (John Winn)
Forty-Five Seconds (Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty)
Snowfall (Dick Blau)
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Proxy (Mahda Purmehdi)
Balancing Act (Federica Foglia)
"2nd Day & the End of the World" (Sara Koppel)
The Minchin Recovery Suite (Sandra Minchin)
Synovial (Natañia Colina)
We’re All Going to Make It (Paul O’Neill)
You’re Not Perfect (Mary O'Leary)
Sente (Myriam Bessette)
Repertoire of Death (Guadalupe Arellanes)
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My Brother Jeremy (Luke De Brún)
hushes (Conchobhar Ó)
I Was Dancing (Jennifer Redmond)
Death by Passive Aggressive Interpretive Dance (Dylan Delaney)
Stranger than Paradise (Topp & Dubio)
The Green Man (Philip Spillane)
After the Swamp (Alparslan Çelik & Alper Çelik)