Surface Noise
Stills
About
Found footage exploring public and private space, organized formally as a sonata, centered around work and issues of class: the divisions between home and public, owners and workers, saturation and flow, structure and improvisation.
I work in media, both film and video. I began as a documentarian and moved into more experimental work by the late 1970s out of a sense of the politics of poetic forms and an aesthetic prediliction toward invention. My films extend the avant-garde and montage traditions of Eisenstein and Vertov, as well as the surrealist traditions of Bunuel and Breton in an attempt to examine, critique and play with and within the social realities of our era. In addition to these stylists from early in the century, my influences include the postwar films of Bruce Conner, Stan Brakhage and the under-recognized Len Lye. These works support my commitment to wit, clarity and an investigation of the daily. I expand on these traditions by focusing on sound/image relationships, and by examining gender, the portrayal of women and desire.
Films
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Ornamentals
Abigail Child16mm, color, silent, 8 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Prefaces Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 1)
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 9.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Mutiny
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 9.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Covert Action Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 4)
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 7.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimentalNarrative
Perils, Mayhem, Mercy
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 126 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimentalNarrative
Perils Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 5)
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 3.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Is This What You Were Born For? 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 (Prefaces, Mutiny, Covert, Perils, Mayhem)
Abigail Child16mm, color and b/w, sound, 46.75 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Mayhem Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 6)
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 16.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
Both Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 2)
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 2 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Mercy Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 7)
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 10 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
B/Side
Abigail Child16mm, color and b/w, sound, 40 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Below The New: A Russian Chronicle
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 30 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimentalNarrative
Dark Dark
Abigail Child16mm, black and white, sound, 16 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Cake and Steak
Abigail Childcolor, sound, 10 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
To and No Fro
Abigail Childcolor and b/w, sound, 4.5 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Foreign Film Series
Abigail Childcolor and b/w, sound, 45 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Mirror World
Abigail Childcolor, sound, 12 min - Read MoreExperimental
(If I can sing a song of) LIGATURES
Abigail Childcolor and b/w, sound, 5 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
The Suburban Trilogy
Abigail Child16mm, sound, 75 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
UNBOUND: Scenes from the Life of Mary Shelley
Abigail ChildDVD, color, sound, 70 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
ELSA merdelamerdelamer + VIS A VIS
Abigail Childblack and white, sound, 30 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
BLUE EDIT
Abigail ChildDigital, color, sound, 15 min