aemi is delighted to present a very special once-off filmmaker’s masterclass with filmmaker and visual artist Christiana Perschon.
Join us at the ATRL: Arts Technology Research Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin for this free, three hour masterclass, where Christiana will discuss her practice and filmmaking process.
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.
Spaces are limited and in high demand, so please book your place via the Eventbrite listing HERE
Still from: When I draw myself, I exist threefold (2023) 12mi, a film by Christiana Perschon with Florentina Pakosta
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.
