Now Available: Five Films by Anna Kipervaser
Posted August 26th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events
Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that five films by Anna Kipervaser, made between 2021 and 2023, are now available.
Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including human and nonhuman animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and environmental conservation. 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 digital video.
Бабушка Галя и Дедушка Аркадий // Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy (2023, 4.5 minutes, color, sound, 16mm)
A jovial and dreamy rumination on love. On time passing. On what we collect, what we hold on to, and how we maintain connection to homeplace, to ourselves.
Next Her Heart (2023, 12 minutes, color, sound, 16mm)
Eternal recurrence and wisdom undone. The end or the beginning. Who are we that we. One and the same are the shadow cast and its cause. A hypnotic journey through the seven valleys on the way to reach the abode of the Simurgh.
With The Tide, with the tide (2022, 3 minutes, color, sound, 16mm)
I know, you’re a seasonal beast
Like the starfish that drift in with the tide
With the tide
So until your blood runs
To meet the next full moon
Your madness fits in nicely with my own
With my own
Your lunacy fits neatly with my own
My very own
– from Sea Song by Robert Wyatt
Terrain Ahead (2021, 20.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file)
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.
in ocula oculorum (2021, 12.5 minutes, color, sound, digital file)
The film interrogates the unknown and the internal, in both subject matter and experience. Dealing with the contemporary state of perpetual doom, it 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.
