Abigail Child

Abigail Child

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- defines the “music video”; The Suburban Trilogy: a modular digi-film that prismatically examines a politics of place and identity; and MirrorWorlds: a multi-screen installation that incorporates parts of Child’s “foreign film” series to explore narrative excess. A new film, A Shape of Error, is constructed as an imaginary ‘home movie’ of the life of Mary Shelley. Child has exhibited worldwide, with retrospectives at Anthology Film Archives (NY), the San Francisco Cinematheque, Sala Trevi in Rome, Exis (Korea), and Harvard Cinematheque, and in important showcases such as The Whitney Biennale, the Viennale and MoMA’s Millenium show. Her work is featured at numerous international film festivals, including the New York Film Festival, Rotterdam, Locarno and London Festivals, among others and is in the permanent collections of MOMA, NY, Centre Pompidou, and Arsenal Berlin. Child has received numerous awards and accolades, including the Rome Prize, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Award and the Stan Brakhage Award. Harvard University Cinematheque has created an Abigail Child Collection dedicated to preserving and exhibiting her work. As a teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Child has been instrumental in building an expansive media and film art program; she has influenced a generation of younger artists. Child is also the author of five books of poetry (A Motive for Mayhem, Scatter Matrix and Artificial Memory among them) and a book of critical writings: THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film from University of Alabama Press (2005).

  • Title: Abigail Child
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  • Known For: Directing
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  • Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
  • Homepage: http://www.abigailchild.com/
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Abigail Child Movies

  • 1977
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    Peripeteia I

    Peripeteia I

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1978
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    Peripeteia II

    Peripeteia II

    1 1978 HD

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  • 2000
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    Surface Noise

    Surface Noise

    1 2000 HD

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  • 1970
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    Except the People

    Except the People

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2012
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    A Shape of Error

    A Shape of Error

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    A Shape of Error

    A Shape of Error

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    A Shape of Error

    A Shape of Error

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2013
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    Unbound

    Unbound

    1 2013 HD

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  • 1989
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    Mercy

    Mercy

    5 1989 HD

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  • 1981
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    Prefaces

    Prefaces

    7 1981 HD

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  • 1986
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    Perils

    Perils

    6 1986 HD

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  • 1987
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    Mayhem

    Mayhem

    5 1987 HD

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  • 1984
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    Covert Action

    Covert Action

    1 1984 HD

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  • 2017
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    Acts and Intermissions

    Acts and Intermissions

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2017
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    Acts and Intermissions

    Acts and Intermissions

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2017
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    Acts and Intermissions

    Acts and Intermissions

    1 2017 HD

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  • 1988
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    Both

    Both

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1983
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    Mutiny

    Mutiny

    5 1983 HD

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  • 2013
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    Elsa merdelamerdelamer

    Elsa merdelamerdelamer

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2011
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    The Suburban Trilogy

    The Suburban Trilogy

    1 2011 HD

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  • 1972
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    Game

    Game

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1977
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    Some Exterior Presence

    Some Exterior Presence

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1978
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    Daylight Test Section

    Daylight Test Section

    1 1978 HD

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  • 2013
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    Vis à Vis

    Vis à Vis

    1 2013 HD

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  • 1990
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    Swamp

    Swamp

    1 1990 HD

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  • 2007
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    Fucking Different New York

    Fucking Different New York

    1.5 2007 HD

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  • 1989
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    Is This What You Were Born For?

    Is This What You Were Born For?

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1996
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    B/Side

    B/Side

    1 1996 HD

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  • 2009
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    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2006
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    Mirror World

    Mirror World

    1 2006 HD

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  • 2005
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    To and No Fro

    To and No Fro

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2014
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    Salomé

    Salomé

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2007
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    On the Downlow

    On the Downlow

    3 2007 HD

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  • 1979
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    Ornamentals

    Ornamentals

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Pacific Far East Line

    Pacific Far East Line

    1 1979 HD

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  • 2010
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    Riding the Tiger: Letters from Capitalist China

    Riding the Tiger: Letters from Capitalist China

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2010
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    Riding the Tiger: Letters from Capitalist China

    Riding the Tiger: Letters from Capitalist China

    1 2010 HD

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  • 1992
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    8 Million

    8 Million

    1 1992 HD

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  • 2020
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    Origin of the Species

    Origin of the Species

    6 2020 HD

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  • 2020
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    BLUE EDIT

    BLUE EDIT

    6 2020 HD

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