Karissa Hahn
Directing
Biography
Karissa Hahn is a visual artist based in Los Angeles. She mainly works with film and video installations. Her work has been exhibited and screened worldwide in cinemas, galleries, and institutions. She received her BFA in Film & Video at California Institute of the Arts. Hahn currently works as a colorist at a film lab.
Known For
Reminiscent of the work of Japanese mastermind Takashi Ito, Karissa Hahn's Please step out of the frame. uses Super 8, a desk, and a laptop to create a playful choreography of body and screen.
Please Step Out of the Frame.
In a combination of documentary and fictionalised reconstruction, a multi-faceted analysis of contemporary art education and the particular impact of Michael Asher’s ‘post-studio class’ at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s.
Walk-Through
5 palm trees get trimmed in 50 minutes
| & | fronds falling, palmed off among frame \
short film by Karissa Hahn
Built Up
experiments in photogrammetry super 8
06.17
a mockumentary.
Sample Queen
One roll of Super 8 film with a painted UV filter and a piece of a broken beer bottle found while filming. Shot while on a class hike in Gorman, CA
() Transluce ()
short film by Karissa Hahn
Deebot
A video is a stream of information, and this moving image relies upon the relationship of static frames, which are algorithmically determined. In the language of video compression, the (I) frames are the reference points between which movement is interpolated. Manual deletion or misplacement of (I) frames results in a video glitch known as a datamosh: the stream of nformation d srupted, d sorgan zed … nterupeted … lost … the ( ) frame removed, rejected … BUT, reclaimed, the (I) frames, the burning bolts of the machine, are at once reasserted in this dance macabre ... (I) FRAME is a mechanical ballet set to the original tempo that characterizes motion on screen at 24 "(I) frames" a second...
(I)FRAME
Inspired by John William Waterhouses' portrait, "A Mermaid." (1901) Portrayal of this immobile creature idealized with images of femininity. A reenactment of Waterhouses's fictional musings while setting up the framing for his portrait.
Before the Portrait
a piece of my cinematic tension series, one leaning toward release making a pot of tea, listening to the radio, a sculpture of pose, a gesture incomplete - no relief a tea kettle boiling to silence is a petrified thought air mattresses are the worst to fold up
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A roll of film shot in an attic, to avoid filming what had been planned, existing as a moment of chaotic relief.
In Nothing Flat
A structuralist documentation of young music producers. The act of sitting down to 'start up' their macbooks.
Startup
EMULSION ELECTRONS IMBUED is part of a collection of films revolving around previously recorded cassette tapes. This film is the first in the series and originally shot on 16mm.
Emulsion Electrons Imbued
A musing is addressed to a glorious phantom-like entity.
Assumptions of Your Phantom(sy)
…..the moment the shadow swells is the moment the image is realized….
shadow swells
short film by Karissa Hahn
REMOTE VIEWING
Digital8 video
Planet Earth 3
EFFIGY IN EMULSION is a study in exposure change to uncover/un-develop a stolen memory. The concept is conceived in the musing: who took the photograph that washed out a frame of this film? A hybridization of mediums and tools (8mm, 16mm, optical printer) are used to investigate the camera flash that washed out a frame in the hopes of uncovering a hidden emotion. A meditation on equipoise is addressed in the guided evolvement and retraction of light on the optical printer.
Effigy in Emulsion
short film by Karissa Hahn