HANDY MAN
10:30, 1999
This work examines the window as a site of voyeurism and surveillance. With his a video camera, Henricks documented 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 that attempts to implicate the viewer in processes of exhibitionism and image fetishization. Handy Man is part a series of works that explores one of the principle metaphors of video: the window.
Production credits Image Text and Sound by: Nelson Henricks Actor: Michel Daigneault Video Help: Monique Moumblow Audio Help: Martin Hurtubise Video Post-production: PRIM (Montréal) Thanks to: Henri-Louis Chalem et Yves Doyon (La Bande Vidéo), Pierre Beaudoin, Nikki Forrest, Alastair Hesketh-Jones, Cody McCaw Portions of this video were developed during an artist residency on the theme of La Méduse, initiated by La Bande Vidéo, Spring, 1998.
