Abigail Child Movies

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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...

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

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

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

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...

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

A beautifully ambiguous study of the nude in light and movement, this short silent film focuses on the dimly lit bodies of two women shot from...

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

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

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity. "Navigation spiraling sunwards....

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

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...

A cinematic reflection focused on the quotidian, with unexpected sound/image juxtapositions and bristling space/time vortices made cognizant through...

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

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

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity. "Extending from PERIPETEIA 1 - a...

B/Side is a poignant and intelligent exploration of the urban homeless, combining sensitive footage of their exterior situation and entering...

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...

Abigail Child’s short, ELSA merdelamerdelamer, is a smoky, punky and sexy chapter in the collectively made Feminist bio-drama, MamaDada about...