Anna Kipervaser

Nacimiento : , Lviv, Ukraine

Historia

Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with topics including ethnicity, translation, mythology, tradition and modernity, with a focus on the Middle East and Islam. Her engagement with these topics is informed by a commitment to formal experimentation, DIY and alternative processes, spanning disciplines including experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and video. Her work has screened at festivals internationally at Slamdance Film Festival, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Crossroads Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Light Field, Antimatter, Fracto, Imagine Science Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Indie Grits Film Festival, Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogota, among others. Kipervaser’s work also screens in classrooms, galleries, microcinemas, basements, and schoolhouses! She is also painter, printmaker, curator of exhibitions, programmer of screenings. She is currently based in North Carolina.

Películas

With The Tide, with the tide
With The Tide, with the tide
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in ocula oculorum
in ocula oculorum
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"in ocula oculorum" interrogates the unknown and the internal, in both subject matter and experience. Dealing with the contemporary state of perpetual doom, the film contemplates various stages of life and death from the point of view of our human bodies and perceptual systems. It explores beta movement and phi phenomenon, pushing the limits of intermittence and persistence of vision, playing with our innate desire for continuity and cohesion by forcing image slip.
Terrain Ahead
Terrain Ahead
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A meditation on water, "Terrain Ahead" is a hybrid analog-digital experimental documentary exploring the trajectory of human impact on coastlines in the United Arab Emirates. The film asks questions around visibility and invisibility, around what is and can be documented and shared and that which cannot.
How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather
How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather
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At an extreme closeness, birds, insects, and other wonders of nature are tenderly examined, every inch of them within the frame, in this meditative silent film.
No Garden Beyond
No Garden Beyond
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Scenes from above, below and around the Sargasso Sea, a body of water unbounded by land where ecology and mythology have coexisted since before Juan de Bermúdez’s 1505 expedition. Where spirits whisper through the Island’s flora and fauna, only to be interrupted by the alternating currents of manmade ruin and regeneration.
When It is Still
When It is Still
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An array of beguiling images—from insect wings to coin slots, carnival lights, and beyond—comprise the latest experimental short from Indie Grits alum Anna Kipervaser, a silent response to her 2017 short And By the Night.
And By The Night
And By The Night
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After a period of no revelations, Surah al-Duha was revealed to Prophet Muhammad, stating that God had neither forsaken nor forgotten him. And to be patient. The film is also a response to my abortion.
Cairo in One Breath
Cairo in One Breath
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After 60 generations, thousands of individual muezzins - those who recite the Muslim call for prayer - stand to be replaced by a single voice broadcast from a radio station. CAIRO IN ONE BREATH follows five muezzins as this Adhan Unification Project takes hold and as Egypt undergoes Revolution and regime change. The story follows five muezzins from when they first heard rumors of plans to install wireless receivers in Cairo's 4,000 officially recognized mosques, through implementation of this Adhan Unification Project (AUP), which since 2010 has displaced thousands. Now, most mosques have receivers installed, though political changes have halted inspection and maintenance. Former muezzins who now perform other duties at mosques, recite the adhan when receivers (all-to-frequently) fail.
The Order of Revelation: 1-5
The Order of Revelation: 1-5
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THE ORDER OF REVELATION is a long-form multipart silent 16mm experimental film translating a holy book from its source language to Visual. The film reclaims the Visual as a Language and challenges prioritization of semantic meaning in translation in favor of considerations such as form fidelity. The structure expands with each chapter, accounting for the development of language while adhering to the inherent rules of the text being translated.
To honor
To honor
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short film by Anna Kipervaser
Instrument
Instrument
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Connecting time and place through undiscovered empty space between hemispheres.