Abigail Child

Abigail Child has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed over 50 film/video works and written six books. An acknowledged pioneer in montage, Child addresses the interplay between sound and image to create, in the words of LA Weekly, “…a political filmmaking that’s attentive to form.” Winner of a Rome Prize, Radcliffe, Guggenheim & Fulbright Fellowships, and a participant in two Whitney Biennials (89/97), Child has had numerous retrospectives worldwide.

Child will be completing UNREALISM: Cinema & Poetics in the Digital Age focusing on a set of issues crucial to art-making in the 21st century: modernist forms of montage, appropriation, sampling & how they are transformed within the aesthetics & politics of a post-internet era. The essays explore contemporary cinema from the viewpoint of a practicing filmmaker/poet whose first-hand observations & critical analyses span over two decades of transformations in materials, spectatorship & distribution.