Abigail Child Movies

  • 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
  • 1979
    Pacific Far East Line

    Pacific Far East Line

    Pacific Far East Line

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    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...

    Pacific Far East Line
  • 1995
    Through the Looking Lass or Snow White

    Through the Looking Lass or Snow White

    Through the Looking Lass or Snow White

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

    Through the Looking Lass or Snow White
  • 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
  • 2007
    On the Downlow

    On the Downlow

    On the Downlow

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

    On the Downlow
  • 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