Press & Interviews

  • Screencap of MoMA website with films by Michelle Handelman

    Museum of Modern Art Film Collection 2026

    MoMA Film adds three works by Michelle Handelman to its permanent collection.

  • Screencap of James Edwardaro Willey reviewing BloodSisters from their Instagram video

    Movie Good or Movie Bad 2026

    James Edwardaro Willey reviews BloodSisters as Film #148 in "350 Films I Wish People Talked About Today" on his “Movie Good or Movie Bad” channel.

  • Screencap of Filmmaker Magazine article by Joanne McNeil

    Filmmaker Magazine 2026

    Joanne McNeil talks with Michelle Handelman about the work of collaborator Lynn Hershman Leeson.

  • Cover of Kunstforum International's Issue 303 from June 2025, with a naked body and a camera setup

    Kunstforum International 2025 (German)

    Christian Liclair writes about “Excess, intensity and dissolution of the self in Michelle Handelman” for Kunstforum International’s “Issue 303: Nakt”.

  • Pink text that reads Screen Slate, First Viewings and Discoveries with graphics of a child and a skull along with the year 2025

    Screen Slate 2025

    Ayanna Dozier includes Michelle Handelman’s Safer Sexual Techniques in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1988) in her list for the Best Movies of 2025, under “First Watches and New Discoveries”.

  • Screencap of Brooklyn Rail interview between Lynn Hershman Leeson and Michelle Handelman

    Brooklyn Rail 2025

    Michelle interviews Lynn Hershman Leeson for the Brooklyn Rail, discussing her new book, Private I: A Memoir.

  • Still from a video where Lynn Loheide is discussing Michelle Handelman

    Lynn Loheide 2024

    “BloodSisters captures these queer outlaws in their zeitgeist moment...” Lynn Loheide reviews BloodSisters.

  • A screencap of an article on Filthy Dreams blog about Michelle

    Filthy Dreams.org 2024

    “Lydia Lunch has always had a voice able to shake audiences to their core.” Emily Colucci writes about Michelle Handelman’s project Delirium.

  • Screencap of an Authority Magazine interview of Michelle Handelman

    Authority Magazine 2024

    “It’s not just about the art, the job, the success; it’s about how do you envision your life?” Yitzi Weiner interviews Michelle about her keys to success in the art world for Authority Magazine, 2024.

  • Girls, Guts and Giallo in gold text on a black and white cartoon image of a woman eating a heart

    Girls, Guts and Giallo 2024

    Self-identified lesbian vampire, Annie Rose Malamet, interviews Michelle for her podcast.

  • An image of the book Little Joe: A Book About Queers and Cinema, Mostly 2024

    Little Joe: A Book About Queers and Cinema, Mostly 2024

    Little Joe releases an anthology featuring an essay on Michelle Handelman’s BloodSisters by Black Venus.

  • A screencap of an article on Filmmaker Magazine about Michelle Handelman

    Filmmaker Magazine 2024

    “I think of my work as functioning like a virus…” Michelle Handelman is interviewed by Scott Macaulay.

  • Still from a video where Michelle Handelman discusses her work with visual aids

    The Brooklyn Rail NSE #979 2024

    Artist Michelle Handelman joins Brooklyn Rail contributors Jill H. Casid and Ksenia M. Soboleva for a video conversation about her project Delirium and more.

  • Tribes.org 2024

    An audio conversation between Michelle Handelman, M. Lamar and Lydia Lunch focusing on Michelle’s upcoming project, Delirium.

  • A still of a video showing Michelle Handelman being interviewed for FIT

    Fashion Institute of Technology 2023

    The FIT Special Collections & College Archives interviews Michelle for their Oral History Collections.

  • A screenshot of an article in Little White Lies

    Little White Lies 2023

    Lucy Talbot Allen loves the lesbian documentaries of the 1990s, including Michelle Handelman’s BloodSisters, which exemplifies a kind of low-budget, shot-on-video “dyke doc” style.

  • GutterSaint 2023

    GutterSaint announces the private sale of Michelle Handelman’s artist archive which features over 3900 items from the 1980s to today.

  • Astra Mag 2022

    Davey Davis talks art and BDSM with Michelle Handelman.

  • Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 2022

    Assistant Curator Lisa Shoshany Anderson is joined by Maeve Hogan and Becca Owen for a conversation about Handelman's work and the collaborative process behind the exhibition These Unruly and Ungovernable Selves.

  • Little Joe Issue #6 2021

    Little Joe’s first issue in six years features a cover story on Michelle Handelman’s BloodSisters.

  • Filmmaker Magazine 2021

    “If something gives me the chills…then I know I have to use it.” Lauren Wissot interviews Michelle Handelman on the 25th anniversary release of BloodSisters.

  • Stonewall National Museum and Archives 2020

    SNMA Executive Director Hunter O’Hanian interviews Michelle Handelman on the 25th anniversary of her work, BloodSisters.

  • Club Des Femmes CDF Fringe! 2020

    “25 years ago Michelle Handelman made the first film about BDSM amongst women…”
    CDF Fringe! screens BloodSisters with an intro by scholar Flora Dunster.

  • Flora Dunster Introduction to BloodSisters for CDF Fringe! 2020

    Flora Dunster, an accomplished scholar in queer studies, gives an intro to BloodSisters for its CDF Fringe! screening.

  • Screen Slate 2020

    Mackenzie Lukenbill writes about BloodSisters 25th anniversary screening at NewFest, New York’s annual LGBTQ+ film and media festival.

  • Bomb Magazine 2020

    Jane Ursula Harris interviews Michelle about BloodSisters.

  • Flash Art 2020

    Michelle’s These Unruly and Ungovernable Selves opens at signs and symbols gallery.

  • Indiewire 2020

    Jude Dry discusses why Michelle Handelman’s BloodSisters is a queer classic.

  • Them.us 2020

    Michelle Hyun Kim picks her favorite LGBTQ+ films at Outfest 2020, including Michelle Handelman’s BloodSisters.

  • Brooklyn Rail: A Tribute to Carolee Schneemann (1939 – 2019)

    “I saw myself in her mirror, pushing the radical political against the radical erotic.” Michelle joins Yvonne Rainier, Bruce McPherson and others in writing tributes to legendary artist, Carolee Schneemann, for the Brooklyn Rail.

  • Creative Capital 2019

    Michelle Handelman presents at the 2019 Creative Capital Artist Retreat with her upcoming project, Delerium.

  • NY Art Beat 2019

    signs and symbols presents Michelle’s “Lover, Hater, Cunty Intellectual” from Hustlers & Empires.

  • Brooklyn Rail 2019

    Alex A. Jones covers Michelle’s Hustlers & Empires.

  • Artnet 2019

    Sarah Cascone includes Michelle’s Hustlers & Empires in her Editors’ Picks for 11 Things to see in New York.

  • Filmmaker Magazine 2019

    Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine’s Editor in Chief, interviews Michelle Handelman about her journey from filmmaking to gallery installations.

  • Filthy Dreams Blog 2018

    Emily Colucci writes about Michelle Handelman’s Hustlers & Empires for her blog, Filthy Dreams.

  • KQED 2018

    Sarah Hotchkiss writes about Michelle Handelman’s Hustlers & Empires at SFMOMA.

  • Video still of an interview with Michelle for Chelsea Film Festival

    Chelsea Film Festival #WCW 2017

    CFF Founder Ingrid Jean-Baptiste interviews Michelle Handelman, their #WomanCrushWednesday, via livestream video at The Fashion Institute of Technology.

  • Video still of Michelle Handelman being interviewed for Bomb Magazine 2013

    Bomb Magazine 2013

    Michelle Handelman discusses vampire jewel thieves, censorship, and re-interpreting The Picture of Dorian Gray in a video interview for Bomb Magazine.

  • Video still featuring Michelle Handelman

    VelvetPark Studio Visit 2007

    From the archives! Back in 2007 Velvetpark captured a studio visit with Michelle Handelman on video.