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Mayhem (1987)

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Mayhem
NR 17 minMar 10th, 1987Is This What You Were Born For? PosterPart of Is This What You Were Born For?
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In 1983 filmmaker and poet Abigail Child cut up old footage from Between Times a documentary profile of high school girls in Minneapolis which she had produced for WNETPBS back in 1975 That footage would then be integrated into work of a drastically different kind The film was called Mutiny which by its very name signaled her abandonment of the humanist documentary tradition to which Between Times belonged to become in her words a prismatic rhythmic pinwheel born of the artistic and political necessity to radically rethink form Mutiny in turn stood as one of the most densely woven in a series of bold experiments that came to be known as Is This What You Were Born For
StarringDiane TorrEla Troyano
DirectorAbigail Child

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Theatrical Release:March 10th, 1987
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.