Abigail Child Movies

  • 2009
    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

    02009HD

    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...

    (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures
  • 2017
    Acts and Intermissions

    Acts and Intermissions

    Acts and Intermissions

    02017HD

    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
  • 1995
    Through the Looking Lass or Snow White

    Through the Looking Lass or Snow White

    Through the Looking Lass or Snow White

    01995HD

    Collaboration between Abigail Child and L. Champagne/Benton Bainbridge. "A revised Snow White, exploring abstract narrative structures, seduced and...

    Through the Looking Lass or Snow White
  • 2007
    On the Downlow

    On the Downlow

    On the Downlow

    2.32007HD

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

    On the Downlow
  • 2013
    Vis à Vis

    Vis à Vis

    Vis à Vis

    02013HD

    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
  • 1990
    Swamp

    Swamp

    Swamp

    01990HD

    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