Michelle Handelman

Michelle
Handelman

Michelle Handelman uses video, live performance and photography to make confrontational works that explore the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness. Her background is a study in opposites ...

Films

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    Safer Sexual Techniques in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    Experimental

    Safer Sexual Techniques in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    Michelle Handelman

    16mm, color, sound, 10 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, 3/4″ NTSC
    • Structural
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    Homophobia Is Known To Cause Nightmares
    Experimental

    Homophobia Is Known To Cause Nightmares
    Michelle Handelman

    16mm, color, sound, 9 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, 3/4″ NTSC
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    A History of Pain
    Experimental
    Narrative

    A History of Pain
    Michelle Handelman

    video, color, sound, 45 min
    Rental format: VHS NTSC
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    Hope
    Experimental

    Hope
    Michelle Handelman

    video, color, sound, 5 min
    Rental formats: 3/4″ NTSC, VHS NTSC
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    CandyLand
    Animation
    Experimental

    CandyLand
    Michelle Handelman

    video, color, sound, 7 min
    Rental format: VHS NTSC
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    I. C. U.
    Experimental

    I. C. U.
    Michelle Handelman

    video, color, sound, 2.5 min
    Rental format: VHS NTSC
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    La Suture
    Experimental

    La Suture
    Michelle Handelman

    video, color, sound, 8.25 min
    Rental formats: VHS NTSC, Beta SP NTSC
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    Michelle Handelman Performance Videos
    Experimental

    Michelle Handelman Performance Videos
    Michelle Handelman

    video, color, sound
    Rental format: VHS NTSC
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    DJ Spooky vs. WebSpinstress M
    Experimental

    DJ Spooky vs. WebSpinstress M
    Michelle Handelman

    video, color, sound, 2.5 min
    Rental format: VHS NTSC
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    I Hate You
    Experimental

    I Hate You
    Michelle Handelman

    video, color, sound, 3 min
    Rental formats: DVD NTSC, VHS NTSC
    • Philosophical
    • Comedy
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    This Delicate Monster
    Experimental

    This Delicate Monster
    Michelle Handelman

    sound, 30 min
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
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    Dorian, A Cinematic Perfume
    Experimental

    Dorian, A Cinematic Perfume
    Michelle Handelman

    color, sound, 63 min
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
    • LGBT / Queer
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    Irma Vep, The Last Breath
    Experimental
    Narrative
    Installation

    Irma Vep, The Last Breath
    Michelle Handelman

    color, sound, 33 min
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
    • Body
    • Erotic
    • Philosophical
    • Films About Film
    • Arts / Artists
    • LGBT / Queer
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    These Unruly and Ungovernable Selves
    Experimental

    These Unruly and Ungovernable Selves
    Michelle Handelman

    color, sound, 6 min
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Philosophical
    • Political / Social Activism
    • Films About Film
    • Arts / Artists
    • Economics
    • LGBT / Queer

Biography

Michelle Handelman uses video, live performance and photography to make confrontational works that explore the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness. Her background is a study in opposites – raised during the late 60s/early 70s, Handelman split her time between Chicago, where her mother was a fixture in the art world, and Los Angeles, where her father was a player in the counterculture sex industry. Over the years Handelman has voraciously traversed both these worlds, developing a body of work that investigates ways of looking at the forbidden and revealing dark, subconscious layers of outsider agency.