Abigail Child Talk and Screening
The National Sculpture Factory in association with Cork Film Centre present a talk and screening by renowned experimental filmmaker Abigail Child.
DOMESTIC GEOMETRIES: films by ABIGAIL CHILD
PERILS (1986) 5 minutes
THE FUTURE IS BEHIND YOU (2004) 21 minutes
MIRROR WORLD (2006) 15 minutes
MAYHEM (1987) 19 minutes
LIGATURES (2009) 5 minutes
'Vision is not only what we see; it is a stance taken, an idea, a geometry' (Octavio
Paz.)
Venue:
National Sculpture
Factory
Date:
Weds 14th July
Time:
9.30p.m. Drinks
Reception
10:00p.m. Talk by Abigail Child - followed by film screening.
The National Sculpture Factory and Cork Film Centre are delighted to present a very special, one-night only, night-time screening and talk by renowned experimental filmmaker Abigail Child on the Factory Floor on Weds 14th July.
Abigail Child is a poet and artist whose original montage pushes the envelope of sound-image relations with sensitivity, smarts and passion. In the words of LA Weekly, she makes “brilliant exciting work…a vibrant political film that’s attentive to form.”
Her films in the 80s explore gender while focusing on strategies for rewriting narrative, creating the cult classics PERILS and MAYHEM—included in this programme. In the 21st century, she has developed a textuality to push against visual story-telling, vividly transforming found material. THE FUTURE IS BEHIND YOU, MIRROR WORLD and LIGATURES provocatively and eloquently question our ideas of history and sexuality.
Recently, Child has turned her vertical montage to installation, creating prismatic, interruptive narratives at galleries across the world. A winner of many awards and fellowships, she is currently a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, shooting a feature film THE PURSUIT: scenes from the life of Mary and Percy Shelley in the form of imaginary home movies.
“Child becomes, in effect, a feminist Muybridge, breaking down gestures and actions to reveal unconscious and otherwise invisible patterns…. While always suspicious of a romanticization that can conceal hierarchies of power, or an essentialization that mythifies gender difference, Child captures the rhythms and confidences of the body in movement, with dance offering an inter-text as important to her work as poetry is to her engagement with language.” Tom Gunning, Preface to Child’s THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film (2005).
For more information on this event see: www.nationalsculpturefactory.com
This is event is part of the AVANT Festival 9th – 18th July 2010
For more details on other events during the AVANT festival see
http://theavant.wordpress.com/
Published on: 6 July, 2010
