1999 | 00:10:35 | United States | English | B&W and Color | Stereo | 4:3 | Film
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Body, LGBT, Sexuality, Surveillance
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Handy Man examines the window as a site of voyeurism and surveillance. With his Hi-8 camera, Henricks documents two workers in his interior courtyard. The camerawork has a secretive and furtive feel, treating the male body as an erotic object. This footage forms the basis of a video which attempts to implicate the viewer in processes of exhibitionism and image fetishization. Handy Man is part of a trilogy of works exploring one of the principle metaphors of video: the window.
This title is also available on Nelson Henricks Videoworks: Volume 2.