Press & Interviews
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Museum of Modern Art Film Collection 2026
MoMA Film adds three works by Michelle Handelman to its permanent collection.
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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.
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Filmmaker Magazine 2026
Joanne McNeil talks with Michelle Handelman about the work of collaborator Lynn Hershman Leeson.
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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”.
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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”.
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Brooklyn Rail 2025
Michelle interviews Lynn Hershman Leeson for the Brooklyn Rail, discussing her new book, Private I: A Memoir.
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Lynn Loheide 2024
“BloodSisters captures these queer outlaws in their zeitgeist moment...” Lynn Loheide reviews BloodSisters.
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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.
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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.
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Girls, Guts and Giallo 2024
Self-identified lesbian vampire, Annie Rose Malamet, interviews Michelle for her podcast.
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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.
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Filmmaker Magazine 2024
“I think of my work as functioning like a virus…” Michelle Handelman is interviewed by Scott Macaulay.
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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.
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Tribes.org 2024
An audio conversation between Michelle Handelman, M. Lamar and Lydia Lunch focusing on Michelle’s upcoming project, Delirium.
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Fashion Institute of Technology 2023
The FIT Special Collections & College Archives interviews Michelle for their Oral History Collections.
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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.
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GutterSaint 2023
GutterSaint announces the private sale of Michelle Handelman’s artist archive which features over 3900 items from the 1980s to today.
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Astra Mag 2022
Davey Davis talks art and BDSM with Michelle Handelman.
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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.
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Little Joe Issue #6 2021
Little Joe’s first issue in six years features a cover story on Michelle Handelman’s BloodSisters.
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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.
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Stonewall National Museum and Archives 2020
SNMA Executive Director Hunter O’Hanian interviews Michelle Handelman on the 25th anniversary of her work, BloodSisters.
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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.
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Screen Slate 2020
Mackenzie Lukenbill writes about BloodSisters 25th anniversary screening at NewFest, New York’s annual LGBTQ+ film and media festival.
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Bomb Magazine 2020
Jane Ursula Harris interviews Michelle about BloodSisters.
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Flash Art 2020
Michelle’s These Unruly and Ungovernable Selves opens at signs and symbols gallery.
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Indiewire 2020
Jude Dry discusses why Michelle Handelman’s BloodSisters is a queer classic.
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Them.us 2020
Michelle Hyun Kim picks her favorite LGBTQ+ films at Outfest 2020, including Michelle Handelman’s BloodSisters.
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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.
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Creative Capital 2019
Michelle Handelman presents at the 2019 Creative Capital Artist Retreat with her upcoming project, Delerium.
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NY Art Beat 2019
signs and symbols presents Michelle’s “Lover, Hater, Cunty Intellectual” from Hustlers & Empires.
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Brooklyn Rail 2019
Alex A. Jones covers Michelle’s Hustlers & Empires.
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Artnet 2019
Sarah Cascone includes Michelle’s Hustlers & Empires in her Editors’ Picks for 11 Things to see in New York.
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Filmmaker Magazine 2019
Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine’s Editor in Chief, interviews Michelle Handelman about her journey from filmmaking to gallery installations.
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Filthy Dreams Blog 2018
Emily Colucci writes about Michelle Handelman’s Hustlers & Empires for her blog, Filthy Dreams.
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KQED 2018
Sarah Hotchkiss writes about Michelle Handelman’s Hustlers & Empires at SFMOMA.
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Chelsea Film Festival #WCW 2017
CFF Founder Ingrid Jean-Baptiste interviews Michelle Handelman, their #WomanCrushWednesday, via livestream video at The Fashion Institute of Technology.
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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.
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VelvetPark Studio Visit 2007
From the archives! Back in 2007 Velvetpark captured a studio visit with Michelle Handelman on video.