Child, Abigail

Abigail Child's moving Images always contain elements of humor, liveliness and complex sound/image montage. In the words of La Weekly, she makes "brilliant exciting work... a vibrant political filmmaking that's attentive to form." Child's previous work explores sexuality, focusing on radical strategies to rewrite narrative, and includes the cult classics Mayhem (1987) and Covert Action (1984). Her feature documentary On the Downlow (2007) goes further in its intimate look at an underground scene. An earlier short on this topic, The Party (2005) was featured at the Berlin International Film Fes...