Eternal Recurrence: Six Films by Anna Kipervaser
Thu Apr 30:
$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
Anna Kipervaser
2017-2023
1h 6m
On Film
All work on 16mm film!
About
(Anna Kipervaser, 2017-2023, 66 min)
FILMS IN THIS PROGRAM:
Flicker + pain-inducing sound warning for many of these films.
And By The Night | 2017 | 16mm | silent | 00:09:45 | 18fps
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.
How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather | 2019 | 16mm | silent | 00:07:30 | 24fps
Taking its title from Charles Altamont Doyle, the film is a meditation on ritual, at once a labor of love and of pain, of parting. A taxonomy of the investigation of love, of becoming. In perpetual beginning. In perpetual ending. Coming into vision, into the present, a leaving. A leaving.
Бабушка Галя и Дедушка Аркадий // Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy | 2023 | 16mm | sound | 00:04:25 | 24fps
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.
With The Tide, with the tide | 2022 | 16mm | sound | 00:02:49 | 24fps
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
Next Her Heart | 2023 | 16mm | sound | 00:12:00 | 24fps
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.
The Order of Revelation: 23-30 | 2017 | 16mm | silent | 00:28:00 | 18fps
The Order of Revelation is a long-form multipart silent 16mm experimental 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. 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 rules of the recitation of the Quran. Before the Quran was canonized, it was transmitted orally through recitation, thus, the medium of translation is Kodak 3378E, orthochromatic sound recording film. Several chapters of the Quran are often recited publicly – rather than the whole book, so too sections of the long-form project are screened separately and in various groupings. The Order of Revelation: 23-30 is a translation of chapters 23-30 of the 114 that make up the Quran.
Synopses courtesy of Anna Kipervaser
About Anna Kipervaser
Anna Kipervaser is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including perception, human and animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and environmental conservation. Her practice is informed by a commitment to formal experimentation, DIY and alternative processes across experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and video. Anna’s work screens at festivals, in classrooms, galleries, museums, microcinemas, basements, and schoolhouses! Anna is also a painter, printmaker, educator, curator of exhibitions, programmer of screenings.
Presented by Interbay Cinema Society
Interbay Cinema Society’s mission is to provide material support for filmmakers working experimentally with celluloid film
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