Found footage exploring public and private space, organized formally as a sonata, centered around work and issues of class: the divisions between...

Mutiny employs a panoply of expression, gesture, and repeated movement. Its central images are of women: at home, on the street, at the workplace...

A cinematic reflection focused on the quotidian, with unexpected sound/image juxtapositions and bristling space/time vortices made cognizant...

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...

In Ornamentals (1979), Abigail Child explores rhythm and the poetry of the repetitive image form.

In collaboration with Adeena Karasick & Charles Bryant's Salome (1923) Child has layered and processed the images, recomposed the strains of music,...

Filmmaker Abigail Child presents a feature-length project about girlhood and the immigrant dream, focusing on post World War II North American...

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity.

B/Side is a poignant and intelligent exploration of the urban homeless, combining sensitive footage of their exterior situation and entering...

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

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

[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 European...

A second landscape film, in this case urban. The work constructed from materials gathered over two years looking out at downtown San Francisco from...

“Abigail Child’s series IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR? is one of the most assured and important projects to have emerged over the last decade...