LIGHTSHIP 103
Recent Short Films by Anna Kipervaser
The Nightingale Cinema, 1084 N. Milwaukee
Saturday, August 6, 6 pm, $7-10
The Nightingale welcomes Anna Kipervaser as she takes her recent short films on the road. In her work, Anna Kipervaser explores intersections between realities, between abstraction and translation, structure and poetry, the internal and external. She deals with a variety of topics from the Middle East and Islam, to mythology, translation, and modernity-and-tradition.
Her work spans multiple disciplines including experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and HD video. Anna is also painter, printmaker, curator of exhibitions and programmer of screenings showcasing the works of contemporary international artists. She holds a BFA in Painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati , Class 2003, a Graduate Certificate in Middle East Studies, and, an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University, Class 2015.
Filmmaker will be in attendance for a post-screening discussion!
Program Details:
AZIZ AND VALE
2014 I 8:30 I Video I Silent
A minstrel cannot die in bed. He can only die on the road. During a journey. Dedicated to the guides of the minstrel.
FAIR WINDS+ FOLLOWING SEAS
2016 I 4:00 I 16mm I Silent
The air is cut away before,
And closes from behind.
MYTH
2013 I 5:45 I Video I Silent
Laid above and in front. A sacrifice and an elegy.
A MEETING, IN LIGHT
2014 I 4:45 I Video I Sound
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand –How
few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
IT WILL BE ADVANTAGEOUS TO CROSS THE GREAT STREAM
2014 I 5:40 I Video I Sound
Sometimes, and only sometimes, do things magically fall into place. Always, the future is revealed. The past is never quite what it seemed. And if it’s true that destiny adores repetition , then the present is its silent resting place. All things move toward their end.
THE ORDER OF REVELATION: 1-5
2015 I 14:00 I 16mm I Silent
THE ORDER OF REVELATION is a long-form multipart film translating the Quran from Arabic to Visual, in the order in which it was revealed rather than the order in which it was canonized following the rules of recitation of the Quran, reclaiming the Visual as a Language and challenging prioritization of semantic meaning in translation in favor of considerations such as form fidelity.
THE INVISIBLE AX
2016 I 5:00 I Video I Sound
He knew that the woods are full of forest demons who graze deer and hares like cattle, that the Chuhaistyr – who rends wood nymphs from limb to limb – roams about, inviting passers-by to join him in dance, and that the sound of the ax lives in the forest. He also knew about the Rusalky who emerge from the rivers on clear days to sing songs, to invent tales and prayers, and about the drowned men who dry their pale bodies on river boulders after sunset.
HORTUS CONCLUSUS
2015 I 6:45 I Video I Silent
A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse;
a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.
Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born multimedia artist. Her work spans multiple disciplines including experimental and documentary moving image works. Anna is also painter, printmaker, installation artist, curator of exhibitions and programmer of screenings showcasing the works of contemporary international artists. Her moving image work has screened at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Crossroads Film Festival at the San Francisco Cinematheque, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Indie Grits Film Festival, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Spectacle Theatre, Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogota, and 12Gates Video Art Fest. She holds a BFA in Painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Class 2003, a Graduate Certificate in Middle East Studies, and, an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University, Class 2015. annakipervaser.com
Programmed by Lorenzo Gattorna
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