Abigail Child Movies

Early Abigail Child feature, 51min

In collaboration with Adeena Karasick & Charles Bryant's Salome (1923) Child has layered and processed the images, recomposed the strains of music,...

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity. "Navigation spiraling sunwards....

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

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

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...

“DARK DARK is a ghost dance of narrative gesture melding four found story fragments: Noir, Western, Romance and Chase. The music of Ennio...

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

Four African-American men living in Cleveland, Ohio confront the issues and emotions related to coming out as gay men.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

In collaboration with Monica de la Torre & Bunuel's Women Without Love. Status and culture crack the mirror of family secrets, dreams, hauntings and...

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...

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...