Nelson Henricks Videoworks: Volume 2

Nelson Henricks

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Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: Autobiography, Body, Diary, Experimental Film, LGBTQ, Sexuality, Videoworks

Nelson Henricks Videoworks: Volume 2

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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Nelson Henricks

Crush

1997 | 00:12:00

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…

Collections: 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…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Diary

Nelson Henricks

Handy Man

1999 | 00:10:35

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…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Body, LGBTQ, Sexuality, Surveillance

Nelson Henricks

Time Passes

1998 | 00:06:34

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…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Autobiography, Experimental Film, Literature, Photography