Writings on film from an award-winning filmmaker and poet.As the writer; director; producer; and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films; videos; and shorts; Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. Hallmarks of her style are the appropriation and reassembly of found footage and fragments from disparate visual sources; ranging from industrial films and documentaries to home movies; vacation photography; and snippets of old B movies.The resulting collages and montages are cinematic narratives that have been consistently praised for their beauty and sense of wonder and delight in the purely visual. At the same time; Childs films are noted for their incisive political commentary on issues such as gender and sexuality; class; voyeurism; poverty; and the subversive nature of propaganda.In the essays of This Is Called Moving; Child draws on her long career as a practicing poet as well as a filmmaker to explore how these two language systems inform and cross-fertilize her work. For Child; poetry and film are both potent means of representation; and by examining the parallels between themmdash;words and frames; lines and shots; stanzas and scenesmdash;she discovers how the two art forms re-construct and re-present social meaning; both private and collective.
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