Nelson Henricks Videoworks: Volume 2
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Collection: Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Autobiography, Body, Diary, Experimental Film, LGBT, Sexuality, Videoworks
Three of these four works form a trilogy that explores one of the principle metaphors of video: the window. The window is used to examine notions of knowledge, voyeurism, surveillance and time. In addition, Crush is a reflection on identity, what it means to be human.
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Crush is the story of a man who wants to turn into an animal as told by the man himself, and one or two observers. He employs a variety of techniques to transform himself into a beast, including cutting off parts of his body, exercising...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, consumer culture, sexuality |
"Over the course of one year, I periodically shot footage from the front window of my third floor apartment. This material became the basis of Window, a video about knowing. How do we come to know a place or a person? Through repetition...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: diary |
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...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, lgbt, sexuality, surveillance |
Using a Super-8 camera, Henricks employs time-lapse photography to document the interior and exterior of his apartment. Inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf, Time Passes uses writing as a metaphor for notions of temporality and...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: autobiography, experimental film, literature, photography |
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