Wenn ich mich zeichne, existiere ich dreifach

In her atelier, the ninety-year-old Florentina Pakosta talks art, money and navigating 1960s Vienna as a woman painter. Echoing Pakosta’s description of her self-portraiture practice, WENN ICH MICH ZEICHNE, EXISTIERE ICH DREIFACH shows the artist posing and grimacing before a mirror as she answers the filmmaker’s queries, the camera framing her reflection. Part of Christiana Perschon’s series on pioneering women artists living in Vienna, the film crafts a personal interpretation of its subject’s aesthetics to create a formally aware archive of female creativity and an attentive study of a fellow portraitist. (Salvador Amores)

This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAM 7: TAKING CARE.

In the presence of Christiana Perschon.