Abigail Child Movies

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In 1983, filmmaker and poet Abigail Child cut up old footage from Between Times, a documentary profile of high school girls in Minneapolis which she...

What do construction workers do in their well-earned breaks? How might Angelina Jolie's and Brad Pitt's relationship have ended? And what really...

Images and sounds of American mass media, are dissected and carefully composed into a rapid-fire montage which reveals the processes at work. The...

Experimental music and eroticism swirl about each other in Shiver, the second of the 8 Million stories which can be found in this lively and...

In Ornamentals (1979), Abigail Child explores rhythm and the poetry of the repetitive image form.

16mm to digital, w/ Gary Sullivan Foreign Film Series

In Rome for a year at the American Academy, I created imaginary home movies of scenes from the life of Mary and Percy Shelley. I was attracted to...

Covert Action is a stunning melange of rapid-fire retro imagery accomplishing Child’s proclaimed goal to "disarm my movies." "I wanted to...

Prefaces is composed of wild sounds constructed along entropic lines, placed tensely beside bebop rhythms, and a resurfacing narrative cut from a...

Cake and Steak excavates ‘girl training’ in the legacy of home movies and post-war American suburban culture. Constructed as a series of...

Found footage exploring public and private space, organized formally as a sonata, centered around work and issues of class: the divisions between...

An experimental l6mm feature, A Shape of Error is based on the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley—...

Origin of the Species is an experimental documentary that explores the current climate of android development with a focus on human/machine...

In collaboration with Adeena Karasick & Charles Bryant's Salome (1923) Child has layered and processed the images, recomposed the strains of music,...

A short collaboration in NYC subways right after 9/11— envisioning the absence and paranoia of Metropolis. With Benton Bainbridge & Eric...

Early Abigail Child feature, 51min

A profoundly working-class community with an intense connection to its land and water is transformed into a pleasure paradise for the...

“In The Party, Child has assembled a remarkable array of subjects embodying the complex intersections of sexuality, race, and class. The film...