COLLECTION NAME:
Don Yannacito Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Don Yannacito Collection
Title:
Abigail Child, First Person Cinema
Name:
Child, Abigail
Name Role Term Text:
speaker
Resource Type:
Audio
Genre:
presentations (communicative events)
Place Created:
Boulder (Colo.)
Date Created:
1990-02-27
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 audiocassette (1 hr., 0 min., 30 sec.)
Form:
audiocassettes
Abstract:
As an event in the First Person Cinema series at the University of Colorado Boulder, filmmaker Abigail Child discusses her films, including in depth discussion of Peripetia, Is This What You Were Born For, Perils, and Covert Action. She discusses topics such as landscapes, sound design, sexuality, censorship, and Hollywood films.
Note:
00:00:00 Abigail Child begins the discussion. She introduces the first film, Peripeteia. 00:02:46 Audio cuts to after the film has played. Q&A session begins for Peripeteia. 00:03:20 Child discusses the making of her landscape films. 00:05:55 Introduction to second film Ornamentals (1979). 00:09:01 Child discusses sound on film and mentions the film The Conversation (Coppola, 1974). 00:10:10 Discusses her film series Is This What You Were Born For? and answers audience questions. 00:11:29 Child mentions her film Perils (1985) and the use of silent movies, gestures, and romance narrative. 00:13:24 Child describes using architecture and form in film for structural framework. 00:15:19 Child introduces her next films, Perils, and Covert Action (1984). 00:19:12 Audio cuts to after film has screened. Child answers audience question about soundtrack editing. 00:21:36 Child explains the use of subtitles in her film. 00:27:31 Child explains how she accumulated found footage related to the body for her film. 00:30:25 Child discusses censorship policies regarding found footage material and rating of her films. 00:35:16 Child discusses fear, desire, and sex. 00:38:53 Child discusses pornography and sexuality in her films Perils and Covert Action. 00:42:13 Child discusses of the impact of identity and background on perception of Hollywood films, by people of color and marginalized communities. 00:47:08 Child compares her films to Hollywood, discussing spectatorship, pleasure, and her expectations for audiences. 00:49:21 Child discusses sound editing and the subconscious, referring to Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979), Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1989), and Once Upon A Time In The West (Leone, 1968). 00:51:02 Introduction to the screening of Mercy (1989). 00:51:59 Audio cuts to after film has screened. Child discuses found footage and sound in Mercy. 00:53:36 Child describes camera set up structure in film and the theme of metamorphosis. 00:55:46 Child brings up projects she has not yet finished. 00:58:02 Child discusses using sound effects from cartoons in her films. 1:00:30 Audio ends.
Note Type:
Timecode description
Subject Topic:
Experimental films
Subject Topic:
Censorship
Subject Topic:
Sex in motion pictures
Subject Topic:
Sound in motion pictures
Identifier:
narv_yannacitoDon_128_1990-02-27_abigailChild_a.mp3
Physical Location:
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Shelf Locator:
COU: 5045 | Tape 128
Date Captured:
2024
Internet Media Type:
audio/mp3
Digital Origin:
born digital
Access Condition:
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