Abigail Child Movies

  • 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
  • 2017
    Acts and Intermissions

    Acts and Intermissions

    Acts and Intermissions

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

    Acts and Intermissions
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Except for the People

    Except for the People

    Except for the People

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    "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...

    Except for the People
  • 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