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.

Image: Anna Kipervaser + Majd Alloush
Sound: Anna Kipervaser, Majd Alloush, Ashton Ferrao
Edit: Anna Kipervaser

Production format: 16mm, HD Video

Screenings
2021 Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, NY, USA; 2021 Antimatter [media art], Victoria, BC, Canada; 2021 Middle East Studies Association FilmFest, online; 2022 nanofest22, Daylesford, VIC, Australia, 2022 WINDBREAK, Center, CO, USA; 2022 CineMAS, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2023 Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, USA; 2023 Perceptual Exploration: In Dialogue with Anna Kipervaser, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, USA; 2023 Passing into Shadow: Films by Anna Kipervaser, Cinema House, Denison University, Granville, OH, USA; 2023 Selected works by Anna Kipervaser, Alternative Cinema Series, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA; 2023 Wandering the Sea, Etihad Museum, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 2024 Film Salon with Anna Kipervaser, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA; 2024 Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; 2025 Anna Kipervaser in Person with AFW, The Brunswick Green, Brunswick, VIC, Australia; An Evening with Anna Kipervaser, 2025 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA;