aemi announces new partnership with Bealtaine Festival 2025 @ IFI Dublin to present: Film Portraits by Christiana Perschon
Published date: 11 Apr 2025
aemi is thrilled to partner with Bealtaine Festival for the first time this May as we present Film Portraits by Christiana Perschon in partnership with the IFI.
Bealtaine is Ireland’s national festival which celebrates the arts and creativity as we age. The festival is run by Age & Opportunity, the leading national development organisation working to enable the best possible quality of life for us all as we age.
Age & Opportunity Arts provides opportunities for older people to be more creative more often, to create meaningful participation and representation for all older people in cultural and creative life and to demonstrate and celebrate how our creative potential can improve with age.
In her ongoing series of film portraits exploring the lives of older female artists, Christiana Perschon through formal consistency, gives room for the inner life of an aging artist to emerge. The creator is searching for haptic pictures and makes the perception of the artist visually experienceable despite any dramatization.
The artists featured in this selection of films includes; Tatjana Gamerith (Noema), Lieselott Beschorner (Sekundenarbeiten), Isolde Maria Joham (Bildwerden), Friedl vom Gröller (Friedl) and Florentina Pakosta (When I draw myself, I exist threefold).
Christiana Perschon will be in attendance and will host a Q&A with visual artist Gerda Teljeur after the screening.
Christiana Perschon is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Vienna. She graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She worked for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), the Austrian Audiovisual Archive (Österreichische Mediathek), as an artistic research associate at the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Digital Humanities and the Austrian Film Museum. She has been awarded with the Erste Bank Kunstpreis (2024), Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst (2022), State stipend for media art (2022), Best Camera Award, Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film (2019), Theodor Körner Preis for Fine Art (2018), Best Austrian Short Film, Vienna Shorts (2014). Her films are shown at international film festivals and exhibitions. She is a member of the Vienna based video and film artists‘ platform Golden Pixel Cooperative.
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