Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Child, Abigail.
2. Torr, Diane.
3. Silvers, Sally.
4. Sacker, Elion.
5. Troyano, Ela.
6. MētisPresses (Firm)

Description

1. 148 p. : ill.; 19 cm +

Summary

1. "The condensed filmic work of Abigail Child, borrowing strategies from found footage, Appropriation Art, Language Poetry and experimental music, stands as a landmark in the experimental cinema of the 1980s. The processes of interruption and fragmentation inform the series Is This What You Were Born For?, reactivating the stakes of montage applied in different artistic practices."--Container.

Series statement

1. PLANSécant

Uniform title

1. PLANSécant.

Subject

1. Women motion picture producers and directors > United States
2. Video art > United States
3. Independent films
4. Short films
5. Child, Abigail
6. Experimental films > United States

Genre/Form

1. Experimental films.
2. Short films.
3. Independent films.

Contents

1. Book essays: Strategies of appropriation in Is This What You Were Born For? / Françios Bovier -- Abigail Child: the pulse of the last machine / Tom Gunning -- Abigail Child's audition: sound in the Born For series / Melissa Ragona -- Is This What You Were Born For?: Abigail Child and a poetics of the swoon / Redell Olsen -- [explosion] / Thomas Zummer -- Conversation with a "maximalist" filmmaker / Abigail Child with Françios Bovier and Ricardo da Silva -- Transcription of the Born For soundtracks.
2. Films: Part 1. Prefaces (16 mm, b/w and color, sound, 10 min., 1981) -- Part 2. Mutiny (16 mm, b/w and color, sound, 11 min., 1983) -- Part 3. Both (16 mm, b/w, silent, 3.5 min., 1988) -- Part 4. Perils (16mm, b/w, sound, 5 min., 1986) -- Part 5. Covert action (16 mm, b/w, sound, 10 min., 1984) -- Part 6. Mayhem (16 mm, b/w, sound, 20 min., 1987) -- Part 6. Mercy (16 mm, color, sound, 10 min., 1989).

Call number

1. MWES (Child, A.) 14-2427

Note

1. Films originally released between 1981-1989.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Credits (note)

1. Director, camera, editor: Abigail Child.

Title

1. Is this what you were born for? : Strategies of appropriation and audio-visual collage in the films of Abigail Child / Francois Bovier [ed.].

Imprint

1. Geneva : MētisPresses, c2011.

Series

1. PLANSécant
2. PLANSécant.

Credits

1. Director, camera, editor: Abigail Child.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Child, Abigail. Director. Cinematographer. Film editor
2. Torr, Diane. Actor
3. Silvers, Sally. Actor
4. Sacker, Elion. Actor
5. Troyano, Ela. Actor
6. MētisPresses (Firm)

ISBN

1. 9782940406630 (pbk.)
2. 2940406634

Research call number

1. MWES (Child, A.) 14-2427 [Text]
2. *UTD-3394 [DVD]