Abigail Child Movies

Early Abigail Child feature, 51min

A beautifully ambiguous study of the nude in light and movement, this short silent film focuses on the dimly lit bodies of two women shot from...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 fictional story composed from an anonymous family archive of 1930s Europe with two sisters who play, race, fight, kiss, and grow up together under...

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...

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

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

"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...

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

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