Karissa Hahn

Regal

Karissa Hahn

An old Regal Cinemas pre-show animation is further degraded as it’s run through a ringer of format transfers, each layer representing a different viewing space.

Assumptions of Your Phantom(sy)

Karissa Hahn

A musing is addressed to a glorious phantom-like entity.

Emulsion Electrons Imbued

Karissa Hahn

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.

In Effluence accord; Emulsion

Karissa Hahn

A play between the internal and external, an investigation between the printer and the optical effects of projection. One strip of super-8 film is reconstructed, taped onto 16mm and then re-photographed on the optical printer. The effluence, according to its new emulsion, becoming a reflection of its action.

Eviction, Demolition

Karissa Hahn

And suddenly the last time in a home.

Simmer

Karissa Hahn

Karissa Hahn's 16mm SIMMER is a forced landscape which is soon realized familiar. SIMMER was originally used in a live-projection in which it was burned. The subject no longer exists as well.

Retracing Home

Karissa Hahn

A super-8 film shot on the east coast is brought west, bleached and splattered with paint. Remnants of home remain as frames and stills.

Thank, You

Karissa Hahn

1.30, SD, silent, 2020 collaboration with Paul Hahn

Startup

Karissa Hahn

A structuralist documentation of young music producers. The act of sitting down to 'start up' their macbooks.

Apertures (a brighter darkness)

Karissa Hahn

and just as the swelter plateaus toward a vertical horizon the curtain falls flat in motion a hinge unlatches from sill and a slab of paint is finally relieved, alighting —the window continues to open

Please Step Out of the Frame.

Karissa Hahn

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.

Effigy in Emulsion

Karissa Hahn

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.

control ; defense / in-fluctuate frame

Karissa Hahn

traversing screen

turnaround time

Karissa Hahn

mounted a super 8 camera on a selfie stick and it collapsed, it bent right in half. The ‘weight’ of it.. the ‘wait’ing time of the film…. the (turn-around) time, whilst turning around the camera… the selfie. one roll of super 8 film

Before the Portrait

Karissa Hahn

Vanessa Sioufli

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.

Sample Queen

Karissa Hahn

a mockumentary.