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Peripeteia II
Abigail Child, USA, 1 6mm, 1 2 min, 1 977 A navigation by light, contrasting the camera’s fixed sight with “in site” movement. A sculpture of glass, mirrors and film vies with the choreography of the cardinal points: dense shelter, rain, red emulsion. Filmed in the Oregon coastal forest. This print was preserved by the Harvard Film Archive through a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation in 201 2.
Abigail Child (Newark NJ 1948). Studies at Radcliffe College, Harvard
University and Yale University School ofArt. 40+ films since 1970; screenings at all major venues for artists’ film worldwide; in permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), etc. Fulbright (1993) and Guggenheim (1996) Fellowships; Rome Prize (2010). Six volumes of poetry since 1983. Fourth appearance at Media City including retrospective screening (2004) Lives in New York, NY.