Abigail
Child
Films
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ExperimentalOrnamentals
Abigail Child16mm, color, silent, 8 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
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
ExperimentalMayhem Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 6)
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 16.5 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
Both Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 2)
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 2 minRental format: 16mm
Biography
Abigail Child is a filmmaker, poet, and writer who has been active in experimental writing and media since the 1970s. She has completed more than thirty film and video works and installations, and six books. Child's early film work addressed the interplay between sound and image through reshaping narrative tropes, prefiguring many concerns of contemporary film and media.