Hello! I'm Carl Raymond Hansen. ✌

I've been a Production Designer for 5 years now, working on commercials, music videos, and recently helmed some amazing feature films. I have a knack for movin' vibes and killer visuals sportin' femme punk inspirations and multicultural sensitivities. I ask how we can elevate your intentions and find historical roots of inspiration. What can I help you say spatially?

Recently, I've started working in Spatial Design as well. I've taken classes at Art Center College of Design exploring commerical design and sustainability. I also partnered with the Los Angeles Public Library on the research and development of a redesigned Teen Space emphasizing self exploration and community building across local and global forums.

I also write for TV. Well, pre-WGA for now. I was selected for the "Read Latino Writers" Mentorship created by Dominique Nueves and read for the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition. I'm currently entering fellowships and working on getting representation. Check out my samples or read some zines I made, as well as a short spiel on story below.

No matter what I work on, however, I always emphasize emotional expression. For it's in those smallest details—the last check through the house before a character starts their day or the ambient glance of thousands in a theme park noticing a secret icon for the first time—it's in those small stories we live, that we find connection. I can't help but want to give that to others.

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This sounds overly basic I feel but I've routinely found that the most interesting aspect of story for me is experience. Now, it's quite obvious that different characters have different experiences creating different worldviews. I care a great deal about all of that, of course, but I also feel this applies to the old adage, "know your audience."

I'm autistic. And the one thing you should know about autism is the great difficulty of communicating experience. You've probably had an exercise in school like, "describe the color blue to someone blind." So when I tell you that the texture and sound of neoprene makes me violently gag, why do you think that is? Psychosemantic? Crossed neural pathways? Possession? Creative imagination? Childish nonsense? Point is, when this mental divergence is analyzed by someone outside the autistic experience, something that is as simple as "eating food makes me full" gets warped. Symbols always mean one thing and can't differ, that's commen sense right?

The rigidity of "normal" experience and strict definitions of words creates this idea that any deviation is an abnormality. It can't be a natural occurance and thus must be corrected. Yet I exist with no chemical plant at fault. People try to shoehorn these specific ideas of no eye contact and erratic movement and noises but no, there's so many people that don't exhibit that. So, when you're a defenseless kid, how can you explain your proper, true experience without them loading onto it all these assumptions and stereotypes of what you are and what you need? The same can be said of my Latino heritage and queer identity.

Experience shapes the words we use and the people we become. In countless ways, that process is invisible. Understanding doesn't end with just knowing. It merely begins with personal investigation of these basic symbols. Just now, how has your posture, the temperature of your coffee or room, if you've had a good morning or a rough year, how has it affected your experience of this moment? Of your opinion of my work? Maybe, get to the point? And that is, if all of this plays into your experience of a story, how can we make it better?

If you'd like to know more, I wrote an article for Autism Awareness Month 2022.