Perils (Part 5) : “An homage to silent films: the clash of ambiguous innocence and unsophisticated villainy...The isolation and dramatization of emotions through isolation (camera) and dramatization (editing) of gesture. I had long conceived of a film composed only of reaction shots in which all causality was erased...” Abigail Child
Covert Action (Part 4) : “I wanted to examine the erotic behind the social and remake those gestures into a dance that would front their conditioning, and as well, relay the multiple fictions the footage suggests (the ‘facts' forever obscured in the fragments left us). The result is a narrative developed by its periphery, a story like rumor: impossible to trace, disturbing, explosive.”
A.C.
Mayhem (Part 6) : “Characters from Perils reappear, this time in a film noir setting, soap opera thrillers and Mexican comic books generating the action. Perversely and equally inspired by de Sade's Justine and Vertov's sentences about the satiric detective advertisement, Mayhem is my attempt to create a film in which Sound is the Character and to do so focusing on sexuality and the erotic. Not so much to undo the entrapment (we fear what we desire, we desire what we fear), but to frame fate, to show up the rotation, upset the common, and incline our contradictions toward satisfaction, albeit conscious.” A.C.
Mercy (Part 7) : "Mercy, the last in the series, is encyclopedic ephemera, exploring the public and private visions of technological and romantic invention.” A.C.
Plus selections from Abigail Child's new on-going series Swamp: “a subversive soap opera that targets the family, psychotherapy and property as the villains.” A.C.