Abigail Child Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Early Abigail Child feature, 51min

What do construction workers do in their well-earned breaks? How might Angelina Jolie's and Brad Pitt's relationship have ended? And what really...

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

An experimental l6mm feature, A Shape of Error is based on the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley—...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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