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About
This film was crucial to my understanding of composition, to my desire for an encyclopedic construction (the world "out" there), and reaffirmed my allegiance to rhythm, the rhythm of body-nerve-mind. "Juxtapositions of light made this dream consumed image between the penny arcades & mirrors reflecting masturbating naked brain of magnetized nitrous screens crackling is like pulp beside dummy circumstance." - Bruce Andrews, Jimmy and Lucy's House of K "THE RHYTHM!!!! the rhythm, like jazz, comes out of & returns to the BODY (the animal nature of film!, illustrated by the organic reticulation patterns of the self-processed segments): the 'meanings' of the shots (constantly undermined thru highly intentional overload): ... all films are 'different EVERY viewing' but this one more specifically so: colorfully constructed along lines of color: associative values emerge as if by chance, like memory, fleeting but there, reemerging altered: all films different every viewing but this one more intentionally so: takes several screenings to even know where it begins ...." – Henry Hills, Cinemanews
Films
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ExperimentalPrefaces Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 1)
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 9.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalMutiny
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 9.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalCovert Action Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 4)
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 7.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalNarrativePerils, Mayhem, Mercy
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 126 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalNarrativePerils Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 5)
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 3.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalIs This What You Were Born For? 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 (Prefaces, Mutiny, Covert, Perils, Mayhem)
Abigail Child16mm, color and b/w, sound, 46.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalMayhem Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 6)
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 16.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read More

Both Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 2)
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 2 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalMercy Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 7)
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 10 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalB/Side
Abigail Child16mm, color and b/w, sound, 40 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalBelow The New: A Russian Chronicle
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 30 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalSurface Noise
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 18 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalNarrativeDark Dark
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 16 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalCake and Steak
Abigail Childcolor, sound, 10 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read More
ExperimentalTo and No Fro
Abigail Childcolor and b/w, sound, 4.5 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read More
ExperimentalForeign Film Series
Abigail Childcolor and b/w, sound, 45 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read More
ExperimentalMirror World
Abigail Childcolor, sound, 12 min - Read More
Experimental(If I can sing a song of) LIGATURES
Abigail Childcolor and b/w, sound, 5 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read More
ExperimentalThe Suburban Trilogy
Abigail Child16mm, sound, 75 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read More
ExperimentalUNBOUND: Scenes from the Life of Mary Shelley
Abigail ChildDVD, color, sound, 70 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read More
ExperimentalELSA merdelamerdelamer + VIS A VIS
Abigail Childblack and white, sound, 30 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read More
ExperimentalBLUE EDIT
Abigail ChildDigital, color, sound, 15 min