Is this what you were born for? [videorecording] : [a series of films / by] Abigail Child.
"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...
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| Other title: | Subtitle on disc menu and container: Strategies of appropriation and audio-visual collage. Is this what you were born for? : strategies of appropriation and audio-visual collage. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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Geneva :
MētisPresses,
©2011.
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| Series: | PLANSécant.
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Accompanied by a book with same title which includes essays articulating various views by film scholars on Child's works. Films originally released between 1981-1989. |
| Physical Description: | 1 DVD (70 min.) : sound and silent, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (148 pages ; 190 cm) |
| Format: | DVD ; code free ; aspect ratio 4:3. |
| Production Credits: | Director, camera, editor: Abigail Child. |
| ISBN: | 9782940406630 2940406634 |