Christiana Perschon (*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 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.
In her recent film “Shifiting Silence” Christiana Perschon spends time with Inge Dick, standing out against a twilight sky seemingly infinite, aboard an old barge, that causes the camera and the horizon to gently sway. Together they investigate the passage of time as it translates into shifts of color and light. In the film, sight cannot survey space. Instead, it touches upon metaphysical and planetary time.
