Abigail Child Movies

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

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

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...

“DARK DARK is a ghost dance of narrative gesture melding four found story fragments: Noir, Western, Romance and Chase. The music of Ennio...

Mutiny employs a panoply of expression, gesture, and repeated movement. Its central images are of women: at home, on the street, at the workplace, at...

One of the early documentaries that Child made before turning towards the experimental cinema, and whose footage she repurposed for her later work,...

The condensed filmic work of Abigail Child, borrowing strategies from found footage, Appropriation Art, Language Poetry and experimental music,...

Contemporary ambiguities on the Jersey shore: the look is secular, the lifestyle capitalist, the religion orthodox. 40,000 Syrian Jews have moved...

Recurring emergence of narrative. The “loaded” image becomes the determinant feature for reading otherwise unemotional footage; a first...

A feature-length experimental video based on a 6-week stay in Mainland China in October-November 2006. The result is an intimate and critical look at...

[This film is] structured on the four-handed nature of film: original footage (outtakes from a television documentary I was directing in the spring...

In collaboration with Monica de la Torre & Bunuel's Women Without Love. Status and culture crack the mirror of family secrets, dreams, hauntings and...

This video essay combines diary footage of St. Petersburg with archival material, accompanied by the voices of two young Russians who, through...

Words taken from lines of Nada Gordon's unrequited love poems, whose sentences are taken, in their turn, from anonymous web poems, reveal a history...

"Abigail and Jonathan Child's 20‐minute exploration of the new Lower East Side. At one point in the Child's film, an old man with an East...

Four African-American men living in Cleveland, Ohio confront the issues and emotions related to coming out as gay men.

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

An hour-long collage essay, charging the discussion with her enlightened aesthetic of poetry, the archive, and experimental montage. As the Most...