Abigail Child Movies

Images and sounds of American mass media, are dissected and carefully composed into a rapid-fire montage which reveals the processes at work. The...

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

Early Abigail Child feature, 51min

Mutiny employs a panoply of expression, gesture, and repeated movement. Its central images are of women: at home, on the street, at the workplace, at...

B/Side is a poignant and intelligent exploration of the urban homeless, combining sensitive footage of their exterior situation and entering...

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

The condensed filmic work of Abigail Child, borrowing strategies from found footage, Appropriation Art, Language Poetry and experimental music,...

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...

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

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

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...

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

A short collaboration in NYC subways right after 9/11— envisioning the absence and paranoia of Metropolis. With Benton Bainbridge & Eric...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

"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...