PREFACES
Abigail Child, USA, 16mm, 10 min, 1981 Prefaces is composed of wild sounds structured along entropic lines, placed tensely beside bebop rhythms, and a resurfacing narrative cut from dialogue with the poet Hannah Weiner. The tracks are placed in precise and asynchronous relation to images of workers, the gestures of the marketplace, colonial Africa, and abstractions, to pose questions of social force, gender relations, and subordination.
Abigail Child (1948). 60+ films since 1970; films in permanent collections of institutions including Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Whitney Museum of American Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Centre Pompidou. Fulbright (1993) and Guggenheim (1996) Fellowships; Rome Prize (2010). 10+ volumes of poetry since 1983. Retrospective screening at MCFF (2004). Lives in New York, New York.
