2019 | 11 min | USA / Bermuda
Scenes from above, below and around the Sargasso Sea, a body of water unbounded by land where ecology and mythology have coexisted since before Juan de Bermúdez’s 1505 expedition. Where spirits whisper through the Island’s flora and fauna, only to be interrupted by the alternating currents of manmade ruin and regeneration.
“The dense fields of weeds waiting to entrap a vessel never existed except in the imaginations of sailors, and the gloomy hulks of vessels doomed to endless drifting in the clinging weed are only the ghosts of things that never were” – Rachel Carson in THE SEA AROUND US
Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born multimedia artist. Her work spans multiple disciplines including experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and video. Her moving image 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 Experimental Film Encounter, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Indie Grits Film Festival, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogota, among others. Anna's work also screens in classrooms, galleries, microcinemas, basements, and school houses! She is also painter, printmaker, curator of exhibitions, programmer of screenings.
Rhys Johnevan Morgan is a musician, filmmaker, and occasional educator currently residing in Durham, NC. He makes music with fiddler Courtney Werner in the experimental folk group Magic Tuber Stringband and has also released solo guitar recordings under his own name. His lifelong interest in music informs and directs his interest in experimental film, working with analog processes and technologies as tactile musical instruments. His film work has shown at Anthology Film Archives, Slamdance, Process Festival, Unseen, Engauge, and Cosmic Rays and he has performed in different musical contexts at venues up and down the East Coast.