Abigail Child Movies

  • 2005
    To and No Fro

    To and No Fro

    To and No Fro

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

    To and No Fro
  • 2010
    Riding the Tiger: Letters from Capitalist China

    Riding the Tiger: Letters from Capitalist China

    Riding the Tiger: Letters from Capitalist China

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    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...

    Riding the Tiger: Letters from Capitalist China
  • 1978
    Daylight Test Section

    Daylight Test Section

    Daylight Test Section

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

    Daylight Test Section
  • 2013
    Vis à Vis

    Vis à Vis

    Vis à Vis

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    Inspired by Vertov’s Lullaby from the 1930s, as well as by Warhol’s Screen Test portraits and Frampton’s Manual of Arms from the...

    Vis à Vis
  • 1990
    Swamp

    Swamp

    Swamp

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    Swamp uses the soap opera format to play with the structure and expectations of the family melodrama. Following the melodramatic format that "if it...

    Swamp
  • 1977
    Some Exterior Presence

    Some Exterior Presence

    Some Exterior Presence

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

    Some Exterior Presence