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Covert Action (1984)

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Covert Action
NR 10 minJan 1st, 1984Is This What You Were Born For? PosterPart of Is This What You Were Born For?
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Covert Action is a stunning melange of rapidfire retro imagery accomplishing Childs proclaimed goal to disarm my movies I wanted to examine the erotic behind the social and remake those gestures into a dance that would confront 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
DirectorAbigail Child

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Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1984
Original Language:English
Covert Action on the Web:Official Website

Is This What You Were Born For?

“Abigail Child’s series IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR? is one of the most assured and important projects to have emerged over the last decade. Constructing from and subverting a wide galaxy of source materials, these films are archeological digs into the very stuff, the conceptions, we are born into. Child decomposes the materials and gestures that would compose us. The films are charged with a startling and playful musicality and poetic and rigorous compression. Each image and sound cuts deep and works over time containing hidden and unhidden detonations working against the manufactured ambush that images have in store. Agile dances through treacherous debris, they negotiate an obstacle course of polar anatomies zig-zagging with corkscrew twists and nuclear splits -- a gambol against the hazards.