Jason Hanasik ’03
Jason Hanasik is a filmmaker, artist, playwright, and journalist.
His work has appeared in The Guardian, at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, in The Los Angeles Times, in the academic journal Critical Military Studies, at various international film festivals, on stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Ace Theater in LA, and in solo and group visual art exhibitions worldwide.
His monograph, “I slowly watched him disappear” is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, Stanford University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
As a lecturer and professor, Hanasik has taught students at California College of the Arts and UC Berkeley and he has delivered public lectures at a variety of institutions including TokyoDocs, Creative Mornings, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
As a marketer, Hanasik originated the position of Storyteller in Gap’s Global Marketing Department. During his tenure he made videos and photographs for Gap and Gap Inc, built a sustainable platform to deliver rich media experiences to Gap’s North American fleet of stores, and imagined new ways Gap could integrate their seasonal messaging with emerging technologies into the store experience. Since leaving Gap, Hanasik has created videos and still image assets for small and large brands and served as a storytelling/marketing consultant.
Hanasik has a Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and a Master of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts. He graduated Purchase summa cum laude.
—From jasonhanasik.com
Working on a a fundraising commercial created for Swords to Plowshares during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, Hanasik created the concept for the video and served as director, editor, and cinematographer.
In March, 2018, The Guardian Documentaries released a short doc by Hanasik. How to Make a Pearl tells the story of a man who suffers from a rare photosensitivity to all light forcing him to live in complete darkness.
The film was a finalist for both a Student Academy Award in 2017 and the IDA’s (International Documentary Association) David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award.