Bealtaine, aemi and IFI present: Film Portraits by Christiana Perschon
12.00pm – 1.30pm Saturday 3rd May @ IFI Dublin
Christiana Perschon will be in attendance and will host a Q&A with visual artist Gerda Teljeur after the screening.
Bealtaine Festival in partnership with aemi and the IFI will present a selection of films from artist Christiana Perschon’s ongoing portrait series produced in creative collaboration with an older generation of women artists. Born and based in Austria, Perschon works predominantly with analogue film, using the restrictions of the medium as a guide in key decisions around form and structure.
Christiana Perschon (born 1978) is a filmmaker and artist based in Vienna. In her artistic practice, she combines documentary and performative methods to create film portraits operating outside dominant patriarchal norms of representation and regimes of gaze. She establishes collaborative settings, where interaction guides the dramaturgy and shapes the imagery, dissolving the hierarchy between who looks and who is looked at. In her works she builds a framework for her protagonists to appear, interact and create moving images together with her camera – to which she confers its own agency. She does not only deconstruct the objectifying patriarchal grasp on female bodies, she rather pays homage to inspirational resistant figures, to their working and living practices, weaving their singular paths within a transgenerational framework.
Christiana Perschon 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 made her first feature film She Is the Other Gaze (2018). She currently teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a member of the Vienna based video and film artists‘ platform Golden Pixel Cooperative. Her films have won numerous awards such as the Erste Bank Kunstpreis (2024), Austrian Art Award for Film (2022), Best Camera Award, Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film (2019). Her works have been presented at exhibitions and international film festivals including the Vienna Secession, Belvedere 21, Austrian Film Museum, Viennale, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Visions du Réel, Duisburger Filmwoche, Edinburgh IFF.
Gerda Teljeur moved to Ireland in 1967 after studying at IVKNO [now Rietveld Academie], Amsterdam, and now lives and works in County Wexford, Ireland. ‘Teljeur’s work is significant influenced by the landscape. Whilst producing this series of works the artist travelled between Ireland and the Netherlands, and the work subtly registers the difference between the two countries; the closely compacted and controlled Dutch landscape contrasting with the relatively unrestrictive spaces to be found in Ireland. A sense of landscape resonates as oppposed to being explicitly expressed and the artist works with negative and positive spaces to build rhytmic areas of light and shade.’ (Catherine Bowe, Visual Arts Manager, Wexford Arts Centre, 2013)
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).
FILM INFORMATION:
Noema (2014) 31min
Sekundenarbeiten (2021) 12min
Bildwerden (2022) 10min
Friedl (2023) 3 min
When I draw myself, I exist threefold (2023) 12min
Total running time: 68 minutes
