Michelle Handelman
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday5 August 1960 (66 years old)
Place of birthChicago, Illinois, USA
Known credits18
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…
Claiming the Liminal Space
2021 · Director
Abigail
2021 · Thanks
Candyland
2020 · Director
Solitude is an Artifact of the Struggle Against Oppression
2020 · Director
These Unruly and Ungovernable Selves
2020 · Director
FIT Hives: Sustainability - The Secret to Survival
2017 · Thanks
Irma Vep, The Last Breath
2014 · Director
Dorian, a cinematic perfume
2009 · Director
I Hate You
2002 · Director
La Suture
2000
La Suture
2000 · Director
La Suture
2000 · Director of Photography
BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism
1995 · Producer
BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism
1995 · Editor
BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism
1995 · Director
Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone
1994
Terminal USA
1993 · Original Music Composer
A History of Pain
1992
A History of Pain
1992 · Director
Flesh Histories
1992 · Director
A History of Pain
1992 · Writer
A History of Pain
1992 · Producer
Homophobia Is Known to Cause Nightmares
1991 · Director
Safer Sexual Techniques in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
1988 · Director
The Lens Within Me
Thanks
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