{"id":1082,"date":"2003-11-13T03:35:08","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:58:32","slug":"hyperfictions-film-and-video-work-by-abigail-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/11\/13\/hyperfictions-film-and-video-work-by-abigail-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperfictions: Film and Video Work by Abigail Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, November 13, 2003, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/cake_and_steak__abigail_child2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2400 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/cake_and_steak__abigail_child2.jpg\" alt=\"cake_and_steak__abigail_child2\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Abigail Child in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Among the most accomplished filmmakers of the contemporary American avant-garde, Abigail Child has created a body of films and video known as much for their formal rigor as for the challenging subjects she explores.\u00a0 Deeply committed to the continuing possibilities of the art of cine-montage, Child expands upon those traditions to explore the unique rhythmic energies unleashed in the collision of image and sound fragments.\u00a0 In a dynamic mix of intellectual and metric montage, Child taps into the frenetic poetry of both actual and virtual worlds, from the public spaces of urban life in the Soviet union in the 20\u2019s and the East Village in the 80\u2019s to the inner spaces of erotic fantasy and gender constructions. The program includes: <em>Shiver <\/em>(1992); <em>Perils<\/em> (1986); <em>Covert Action<\/em> (1984); <em>Mayhem <\/em>(1987); <em>Mercy<\/em> (1989); <em>Surface Noise<\/em> (2000); <em>Dark Dark<\/em> (2001); <em>Cake + Steak<\/em> (work in progress) (Jeffrey Skoller). 1984\u20142003, Abigail Child, USA, ca. 92 min, various formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 13, 2003, 8pm Abigail Child in person! Among the most accomplished filmmakers of the contemporary American avant-garde, Abigail Child has created a body of films and video known as much for their formal rigor as for the challenging subjects she explores.\u00a0 Deeply committed to the continuing possibilities of the art of cine-montage, Child [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/11\/13\/hyperfictions-film-and-video-work-by-abigail-child\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Hyperfictions: Film and Video Work by Abigail Child<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[211,423,615],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8","tag-experimental","tag-monographic-shows","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10091,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/10091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}