Hugh Lane Gallery, in partnershop with Create Ireland are delighted to announced the launch of Salmagundi: The Project.

This project was conceived and facilitated by filmmaker Jijo Sebastian, and commissioned following an Open Call by Hugh Lane Gallery and Create in April 2023.

The aim of the project was two-fold: to bring a culturally diverse group of people together to make a feature-length collaborative film and, through this process, to create a transcultural community which would outlive the film and go on to engage in other creative endeavours.

Over the course of the following 18 months, participants – most of whom had no prior experience of scriptwriting, acting or film-making – met in person and online to collaboratively workshop ideas, write scripts, rehearse, and shoot a feature-length film made up of six loosely connected segments dealing with issues of importance to members of the community.

Outside of the film, participants met socially for shared meals, trips together to cultural events, the beach, bowling, and the theatre. The collaborative film on view in gallery 18 and the process room in gallery 6 capture the journey through the highs and lows of making collaborative art and the challenges of trying to build an authentically transcultural community.