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Is this what you were born for? : Strategies of appropriation and audio-visual collage in the films of Abigail Child

Title
Is this what you were born for? : Strategies of appropriation and audio-visual collage in the films of Abigail Child / Francois Bovier [ed.].
Publication
Geneva : MētisPresses, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Child, Abigail.
  • Torr, Diane.
  • Silvers, Sally.
  • Sacker, Elion.
  • Troyano, Ela.
  • MētisPresses (Firm)
Description
148 p. : ill.; 19 cm +
Summary
"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
PLANSécant
Uniform Title
PLANSécant.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Experimental films.
  • Short films.
  • Independent films.
Note
  • Films originally released between 1981-1989.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Credits (note)
  • Director, camera, editor: Abigail Child.
Contents
  • 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.
  • 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
MWES (Child, A.) 14-2427
ISBN
  • 9782940406630 (pbk.)
  • 2940406634
OCLC
826913346
Title
Is this what you were born for? : Strategies of appropriation and audio-visual collage in the films of Abigail Child / Francois Bovier [ed.].
Imprint
Geneva : MētisPresses, c2011.
Series
PLANSécant
PLANSécant.
Credits
Director, camera, editor: Abigail Child.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Child, Abigail. Director. Cinematographer. Film editor
Torr, Diane. Actor
Silvers, Sally. Actor
Sacker, Elion. Actor
Troyano, Ela. Actor
MētisPresses (Firm)
Research Call Number
MWES (Child, A.) 14-2427 [Text]
*UTD-3394 [DVD]
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