Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 05, 1960
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Credits
18 titles
Michelle Handelman
Biography
Michelle Handelman (born August 5, 1960) is an American contemporary artist, filmmaker, and writer who works with live performance, multiscreen installation, photography and sound. Coming up through the years of the AIDS crisis and Culture Wars, Handelman has built a body of work that explores the dark and uncomfortable spaces of queer desire. She confronts the things that provoke collective fear and denial – sexuality, death, chaos. She directed the ground-breaking feature documentary on the 1990s San Francisco lesbian S/M scene BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism(1995), described by IndieWire as “a queer classic ahead of its time, a vital archive of queer history.” Her early work included 16mm black and white experimental films combined with performance. She is also known for her video installations Hustlers & Empires (2018), Irma Vep, The Last Breath (2013-2015), and Dorian, A Cinematic Perfume (2009-2011). In 2011, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for her film and video work.
Known For
Filmography
Claiming the Liminal Space
Director
Abigail
Thanks
Candyland
Director
Solitude is an Artifact of the Struggle Against Oppression
Director
These Unruly and Ungovernable Selves
Director
FIT Hives: Sustainability - The Secret to Survival
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Irma Vep, The Last Breath
Director
Dorian, a cinematic perfume
Director
I Hate You
Director
La Suture
BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism
Producer
Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone
Terminal USA
Original Music Composer
Flesh Histories
Director
A History of Pain
Homophobia Is Known to Cause Nightmares
Director
Safer Sexual Techniques in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Director
The Lens Within Me
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