Michelle Handelman
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 5, 1960
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Movies with Michelle Handelman
Movies directed by Michelle Handelman
- BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism 1995 · ★ 5.2
- Homophobia Is Known to Cause Nightmares 1991 · ★ 5.5
- A History of Pain 1992
- Solitude is an Artifact of the Struggle Against Oppression 2020
- Claiming the Liminal Space 2021
- Dorian, a cinematic perfume 2009
- Irma Vep, The Last Breath 2014
- Safer Sexual Techniques in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 1988
- Candyland 2020
- I Hate You 2002
- La Suture 2000
- Flesh Histories 1992
- These Unruly and Ungovernable Selves 2020