Abigail Child Movies

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...

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...

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...

A superabundance of useless information effectively subdues freedom of speech. Condense and survive!

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

A fictional story composed from an anonymous family archive of 1930s Europe with two sisters who play, race, fight, kiss, and grow up together under...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Swamp uses the soap opera format to play with the structure and expectations of the family melodrama. Following the melodramatic format that "if it...

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...

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...

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...

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

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