Hana Elmisry
Projects
Unwanted
Artist/ Animator,
Creative Director,
Editor
Exploring emotion portrayed when a human is no longer desired
Artist, Creative Director
Producer, Videographer,
Editor, Processing
Once a relationship is over, breaking the habit can take you through turmoil. Ultimately, you are free and yet constrained. These images and short film explore the liminality of a post-breakup; and essentially, what happens after you walking away.
Delirium
Artist,
Director, Producer,
Editor, Processing,
Coder
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Disturbed states of mind that occur. A perspective of psychological disorder within a mind that believes its free. Characterized by illusions, the film and still-images display incoherence and restlessness. of thought and being.
Artist, (Analog & Digital Painting)
Creative Director
Editor, Sound
A circle is a human is the earth is an individual is a collective.
A circle is you a circle is me a circle is everyone.
This one happens to be filled with -
---- R u N
Existential Growth is essentially Death
Video Art: Animation Artist
Analog Painting: Multimedia Artist
An animation of a child walking projecting over:
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One digital painting of a city landscape, 40 * 28 inches printed
With oil paint and wax layered on to add abstraction elements and adult figures rushing
Figures to contrast with itself: the figures imply speed but they are displayed in a hard, slow medium: wax
Animation to contrast with figures. The figures will be gestured in to imply speed but will be immobile and heavy as opposed to the walking figure that is not static- functioning fluidly within the environment; however, slowly.
As a Mo’mena
Specifically, I wanted to question the cognitive structure surrounding the female body. I used a female body with a prayer mat to challenge your perspective of the female body within an Islamic context. It is a guide to understanding. I question how the female body has been warped into an objectified product. In modern society, the dialogue surrounding the female body stands with sexuality. The intention is for the audience to allow the idea of the female body to stand or be defined simply as “creation”. Scripture states equality in production, humans attached sexuality and immorality to it. My intention is to ask the audience to remove their preconceived notions of wickedness or debauchery- to take all their iniquity and replace or begin consideration of a purer notion.
Consider:
If the prayer rug epitomizes taqwa, kheshu3, worship, love and light and ultimately the Creator, can the viewer perceive the female body within the context of taqwa, kheshu3, love and light and ultimately, as creation of the Creator; If the Creator created creation, essentially would that not entail in all of creation being halal; Can a halal symbol (the body) be paired with another halal symbol (the rug)? If the body was created halal when did we make it haram, when did we take Allah’s creation and convolute it into this objectified, sexualized, entity in all societies?
Going forward, discuss these questions amongst yourselves. This is an initial step to help the audience gain perspective. I do not wish to give the audience an answer just yet, but to give them a chance to deduce their subjective answer. With due diligence, the longer statement will come out.
See you soon.
A female body
She loves me
She loves me not She loves
Honestly the dialogue within the written work is sufficient, you can just read it without the abstract.
