Co-Presented by ATA’s Other Cinema

With the release of her video Below The New: A Russian Chronicle and film SURFACE NOISE, Abigail Child confirms her position as one of the leading avant-garde filmmakers of this generation. A practicing theorist and poet as well as film- and videomaker, Child has re-defined montage in particularly contemporary terms, drawing on and extending the work of such past masters as Vertov, Eisenstein, Conner, and Lye. Her seven-part rapid-fire exploration of sound and image Is This What You Were Born For? remains one of the cornerstone achievements in independent cinema of the past twenty years. Child will be on hand to present a three-evening overview of her work from the past twenty-nine years. Programs 1 and 2 foreground the interplay between Child’s formal experimentation and her background in (and return to) documentary issues. (S. Anker)

Thursday, Oct. 12 at 7:30pm – Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Program 1: Peripeteia I (1977) and II (1978); Ornamentals (1979); Prefaces (1981); Shiver (1991); Below The New: A Russian Chronicle (1999)

Saturday, Oct. 14 at 8:30pm – Artists Television Access, 992 Valencia St.
Program 2: Game (1972); Mutiny (1982); B/Side (1996)

Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7:30pm – Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Program 3: Perils (1986); Covert Action (1984); Mayhem (1987); Mercy (1989); SURFACE NOISE (2000)