Michelle Handelman
is a filmmaker, visual artist, and writer whose work pushes against the boundaries of gender, race, and sexuality. Her multiscreen installations and films have been exhibited widely including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; ICA London; MIT List Visual Arts Center; PARTICIPANT, INC, New York; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; PERFORMA Biennial; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and The Film Society of Lincoln Center. During the 1990s, Handelman worked in San Francisco where she directed her ground-breaking feature documentary BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism (1995), and collaborated with Monte Cazazza, a pioneer of the Industrial music scene. She is a Guggenheim fellow, Creative Capital awardee and her work has been widely reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Filmmaker Magazine, Bomb Magazine, and the New York Times.
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Private I: A Memoir is one of those memoirs you can’t put down—every page feels like you’re sitting in the room with Lynn, listening as she unravels her most personal challenges as a female artist coming up during the sixties and seventies.
