HANNAH MANDEL
Born New York, 1990
Lives in Baltimore, Maryland
Hannah Mandel is primarily interested in mining the intersection of a personal reality and cinematic representations of such. Her work deals with notions of filmic vs. "real" time and space in an attempt to question larger issues of illusion, escapism and memory. The work relies heavily on the language of cinematic tropes, drawing comparison between them and other postmodern narrative building techniques.
Presented as films, installations and texts, the works are a personal reading of events as seen through the unrelentingly diluted and removed frame of the camera.
Mise-en-abyme, 2012, movie theater seat and director’s chair reupholstered in digitally printed canvas, Kino-Flo daylight lamps, reconstructed movie props, copies of Phantasmagoria and Screen to Table publications.
Publication documenting Screen to Table. 2012. 37 pgs. Ed. of 25.
$15. E-mail for purchasing information.
This publication, along with Phantasmagoria (Nothing But Blackberries) will be available for purchase at the Open Space Prints and Multiples Fair as well as at the MICA Commencement Exhibition, May 11-14, 2012.
Phantasmagoria (Nothing But Blackberries), 2011-12. Publication. 102 pgs. Ed. of 25.
Phantasmagoria (Nothing But Blackberries) is a compilation of texts, images and projects documenting an attempt to blur boundaries between filmic and lived realities.
$40
E-mail for purchasing information.
This publication, along with Screen to Table will be available for purchase at the Open Space Prints and Multiples Fair as well as at the MICA Commencement Exhibition, May 11-14, 2012.
a few products representative of a constructed reality, existing on a saturday night, 2012, reconstructed beer bottle and cigarette pack, framed text and images
“Morley” and “Heisler” are fictional brands exclusively appearing in television and cinema. This project served as an exercise in incorporating these “fill-ins” for real world products into my personal reality.The text will be published as part of a larger publication, due to be finished in May 2012.
Maintenant, 2011, single-loop video projection (footage appropriated from Breathless and Repulsion), stretched digital prints on canvas, framed prints on paper.
Truths (time she stopped…), 2011, two 16mm projectors, film loops, scaffolding, spotlight, letterboard
Ecstatic Truths, 2011
Small zine about the ideas surrounding Werner Herzog’s notions of the “Ecstatic Truth”: the idea that “there are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.” as well as other aspects of film theory.
Untitled (Peephole), 2011, in collaboration with Morgan Frailey, stage wall and door, reverse peephole, three actors, kino-flo movie light, television with test pattern
Door, Heaving into Sight, 2011
8 sec. 16mm film loop of countdown reel, screenplay with 113 sequential photographs showing a door opening, then closing.
Perhapsing (1), graphite on Rives BFK, 24x36”, copied script from The Truman Show, Kino Flo daylight lamp.
