Life Session
Neslon Henricks
Program presented as part of the program Nelson Henricks
Life Session is based on the first two minutes of a 1970s gay porn film. Shot on Super 8, the original 10-minute film takes place in an artist’s studio: we see an artist drawing a live model, close-ups of the charcoal drawings he is executing, and shots of the model looking back at the artist. With the help of several assistants, Henricks has made pencil drawings of every frame of this two-minute excerpt. The resulting animated sequences were intercut with the live action footage, creating a curious effect. Life Session examines the myth of the artist in popular culture via the mise-en-abyme of an artist drawing a film of an artist drawing a model.
Life Session is based on the first two minutes of a 1970s gay porn film. Shot on Super 8, the original 10-minute film takes place in an artist’s studio: we see an artist drawing a live model, close-ups of the charcoal drawings he is executing, and shots of the model looking back at the artist. With the help of several assistants, Henricks has made pencil drawings of every frame of this two-minute excerpt. The resulting animated sequences were intercut with the live action footage, creating a curious effect. Life Session examines the myth of the artist in popular culture via the mise-en-abyme of an artist drawing a film of an artist drawing a model.
| Director | Neslon Henricks |
| Script | Nelson Henricks |
| Production | Nelson Henricks |
| Editing | Nelson Henricks |
| Cinematography | Nelson Henricks, Richard Moore |