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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Table of Contents:
- 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)
- 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.