IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR - STRATEGIES OF APPROPRIATION AND AUDIO-VISUAL COLLAGE
The condensed filmic work of Abigail Child, borrowing strategies from found footage, Appropriation Art, Language Poetry and experimental music, stands a a landmark in the experimental cinema of the 1980's. The processing of interruption and fragmentation inform the series IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR? , reactivating the stakes of montage applied in different artistic practices.
The essays gathered in this volume articulate points of view formulated by film scholars, sound theorists, literary critics and art historians, in order to circumscribe the erratic poetics of Abigail Child's films.
Texts include:
• François Bovier, Strategies of Appropriation in IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR?
• Tom Gunning, Abigail Child: the Pulse of the Last Machine
• Melissa Ragona, Abigail Child's Audition: Sound in the BORN FOR series.
• Redell Olsen, IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR?: Abigail Child and a Poetics of the Swoon
• Thomas Zummer, (explosion)
• Abigail Child with François Bovier and Ricardo da Silva, Conversation wtih a "Maximalist" Filmmaker
• Transcription of the BORN FOR Soundtracks
Contents
Format: DVD-NTSC / Region 0
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IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR?
(USA, 1981 -1989)
Director, Producer, Camera & Editor: Abigail Child
PARTS 1-7
PREFACES
(Part 1, 1981)
• 9:30 minutes
• 16mm
• B&W, Color
• Sound
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MUTINY
(Part 2, 1983)
• 10 minutes
• 16mm
• B&W, Color
• Sound
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BOTH
(Part 3, 1988)
• 2 minutes
• 16mm
• B&W
• Silent
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PERILS
(Part 4, 1986)
• 3:30 minutes
• 16mm
• B&W
• Sound
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COVERT ACTION
(Part 5, 1984)
• 7:30 minutes
• 16mm
• B&W, Color
• Sound
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MAYEHM
(Part 6, 1987)
• 16:30 minutes
• 16mm
• B&W
• Sound
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MERCY
(Part 7, 1989)
• 10 minutes
• 16mm
• Color
• Sound
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Total Running Time:00:59:19
Language: English
Published By: MētisPresses
Booklet Text: François Bovier, Tom Gunning, Melissa Ragona, Redell Olsen, Thomas Zummer & Abigail Child
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