Abigail Child Movies

Early Abigail Child feature, 51min

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

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

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity. "Extending from PERIPETEIA 1 - a...

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

Abigail Child’s short, ELSA merdelamerdelamer, is a smoky, punky and sexy chapter in the collectively made Feminist bio-drama, MamaDada about...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

"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...

Collaboration between Abigail Child and L. Champagne/Benton Bainbridge. "A revised Snow White, exploring abstract narrative structures, seduced and...

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

A second landscape film, in this case urban. The work constructed from materials gathered over two years looking out at downtown San Francisco from a...

LA LUCHA spans over 100 years, foregrounding three moments of citizen protests that have been met repeatedly with police brutality. Not merely...

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

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