shadow swells

short film by Karissa Hahn

In Karissa Hahn’s enigmatic silent film, a series of dizzying whip-pans seems to reveal a sunlit woodland scene, which quickly dissolves into abstracted shapes, flickers of shadow and light, and curious traces of the natural and human-made.

2021, super 8 to 16mm, black & white, silent, 03:00, double projection

flowers bloom like unknown creatures before the helmet of astronauts, astronauts, astro-nots; for fiction of the views are tangled in the knowns of this planet

The image happened, no?

a distraction of simple thoughts while waiting on hold and aging.

one roll of expired super 8, in camera cross dissolves

short film by Karissa Hahn

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.

2017, thermochromic ink on 16mm film

short film by Karissa Hahn

A recital: Things said to me while working for a cat-sitting company in Beverly Hills

And suddenly the last time in a home.

collaboration with Christina Nguyen

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.

one roll super 8, in camera cross dissolves