Abigail Child

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

-

Place of Birth

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Abigail Child

Biography

Abigail Child has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film and video works and installations, and six books. An acknowledged pioneer in montage, Child’s early film work addressed the interplay be- tween sound and image in the context of resh aping narrative tropes, in a manner that prefigured many contemporary and future media concerns. Her major projects include Is This What You Were Born For?: a 9 year, 7-part work; B/Side: a film that negotiates the politics of internal colonialism in New York City; 8 Million: a collaboration with avant-percussionist Ikue Mori that re- ...

Production

1977

Peripeteia I

as Director

1978

Peripeteia II

as Director

2000

Surface Noise

as Director

1970

2012

A Shape of Error

as Cinematography

2012

A Shape of Error

as Producer

2012

A Shape of Error

as Director

2013

Unbound

as Director

1989

Mercy

as Director

1981

Prefaces

as Director

1986

Perils

as Director

1987

Mayhem

as Director

1984

Covert Action

as Director

2017

2017

Acts and Intermissions

as Camera Operator

1988

Both

as Director

1983

Mutiny

as Director

2013

1972

Game

as Director

1977

1978

2013

Vis à Vis

as Director

1990

Swamp

as Director

1996

B/Side

as Director

2006

Mirror World

as Director

2005

To and No Fro

as Director

2014

Salomé

as Director

2007

On the Downlow

as Director

1979

Ornamentals

as Director

1979

1992

8 Million

as Director

2020

2020

BLUE EDIT

as Director

2001

Dark Dark

as Director

2004

Cake + Steak

as Director

2011

Surf + Turf

as Director

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