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.
Total trailers found: 78
11 September 2020
everything is becoming image / all is trapped and glitching / you are late for zoom again / your bosg
05 April 2017
Staged for 'Take 3' to be the shot, the 'perfect shot.' The rest are bloopers, this film is called 'BLOOPERS' a staged shoot for the perfect shot without consideration of chance.
01 January 2018
The year 2021 – experience the duration of 1 year in 24 frames for 24 hours of the day – 365 strips of film inkjet printed with the precise amount of light per day, including accurate twilight times.
28 July 2021
2021, super 8 to 16mm, black & white, silent, 03:00, double projection
01 January 2014
A busted projector on an otherwise gorgeous day. Shot on 16mm.
01 January 2013
REVERIES is a film largely inspired the teachings of Charlotte Pryce. A multi-projected piece concerning the theories of visual perception in relation to film movement, rhythm and performance.
01 January 2012
A structuralist documentation of young music producers. The act of sitting down to 'start up' their macbooks.
01 January 2013
A play between the internal and external, an investigation between the printer and the optical effects of projection.
21 January 2017
A VHS rendition of what happens when we die - an investigation into death induced dream ephemera or; a body (mind) dissolves into video signal memories.
27 May 2022
…..the moment the shadow swells is the moment the image is realized….
01 January 2015
one roll of super 8 OH, canted angle…. a ‘collaboration’ or rather, a collusion of sorts…. as for my volition….
01 January 2013
SAYRE'S VAPOR is derived from the mind of Zelda Fitzgerald and her sentiment of being "spun glass." A scene that has been extracted from REVERIES and given its own space to breathe.
05 May 2015
....for further details please refer to your copy of the 'In-Flight Entertainment Guide' found in the seat pocket in front of you, thank you.
01 January 2014
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.
24 April 2017
becoming cataract a hot steam mingles and churns cool fog / swelling gray film frames - the burning e
25 August 2020
and just as the swelter plateaus toward a vertical horizon the curtain falls flat in motion a hingn
23 April 2013
One roll of Super 8 film with a painted UV filter and a piece of a broken beer bottle found while filming.
01 January 2014
commissioned by an online gallery space founded by Harrison James > SEARCH, CLICK (as Lady Shalott s
01 January 2013
One roll of 16mm - in camera edits - sound collaboration with Kyle Hamon
07 June 2016
5 palm trees get trimmed in 50 minutes
01 January 2013
A roll of film shot in an attic, to avoid filming what had been planned, existing as a moment of chaotic relief.
13 January 2018
Reminiscent of the work of Japanese mastermind Takashi Ito, Karissa Hahn's Please step out of the frame.
25 August 2023
a distraction of simple thoughts while waiting on hold and aging.
01 January 2012
A musing is addressed to a glorious phantom-like entity.
01 January 2014
EMULSION ELECTRONS IMBUED is part of a collection of films revolving around previously recorded cassette tapes.
14 March 2017
youtube > super 8 > 16mm > optical printer the Ohio State University performs their 'Hollywood Blockbuster' halftime show.
07 October 2016
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.
01 January 2014
commissioned by "GirlTrip", an online gallery space founded by Harrison James. "CROSSING-FRAME"
01 January 2013
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.
02 March 2016
A video is a stream of information, and this moving image relies upon the relationship of static frames, which are algorithmically determined.
31 August 2016
mounted a super 8 camera on a selfie stick and it collapsed, it bent right in half. The ‘weight’ of it.
01 January 2013
Metal metamorphosing to a surveying macro lens- bending reflections of the mundane. Reflections only made on the surface of objects - transposing into new forms.
31 December 2012
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.
01 January 2014
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.
