Anna Kipervaser

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.