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Prefaces (1981)

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Prefaces
NR 10 minJan 1st, 1981Is This What You Were Born For? PosterPart of Is This What You Were Born For?
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Prefaces is composed of wild sounds constructed along entropic lines placed tensely beside bebop rhythms and a resurfacing narrative cut from a dialogue with poet Hannah Weiner Child tells us The tracks are placed in precise and asynchronous relation to images of workers the gestures of the marketplace colonial Africa and abstractions to pose questions of social force gender relations and subordination This tape serves as a preconscious preface to the parts that follow whose scope and image bank are more narrowly defined
DirectorAbigail Child

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Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1981
Original Language:English
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woman director

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.