BLUE HANDS IS A SERIES OF 6 SHORT EXPERIMENTAL FILMS PRINTED BY HAND USING AND ANTIQUE PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESS KNOWN AS THE CYANOTYPE. THE FILM IS ANTIQUARIAN IN NATURE AND HARKENS BACK TO A TIME WHEN CINEMA WAS VERY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT IT HAS BECAME TODAY. THE 6 FILMS MIMIC A STYLE OF FILM KNOWN AS ‘ACTUALITY FILMS’ A BODY OF WORK SPANNING 25 YEARS BEGINNING IN THE 1890′S IN WHICH FILM WAS A SIMPLE DOCUMENT OF THE WORLD AROUND US AND NOTHING MORE. BLUE HANDS IS SIMILARLY SIMPLISTIC IN IT’S REPRESENTATION OF CRAFT PERSONS PREFORMING THEIR PARTICULAR CRAFT WORK. THE REPRESENTED ARTIST REFLECTS MY OWN CRAFT WORK AS I SEE THE APPLICATION AND PRINTING OF EACH OF THE 11,000 CYANOTYPES TO BE AN EXERCISE OF CRAFT (IN RELATION TO FILM-MAKING). IN TOTAL THE 6 FILMS SPAN 4 YEARS OF WORK BEGINNING IN 2008 AND ENDING IN 2012. BLUE HANDS WAS PRODUCED THROUGH A 2010 EMERGING ARTIST PRODUCTION GRANT FROM JEROME FOUNDATION.