Abigail Child

Abigail Child is an American filmmaker, poet, and writer who has been active in experimental writing and media since the 1970s. Child was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1948. She has completed more than thirty film and video works and installations, and six books. Child identifies as a person of Left political ideology and considers herself a feminist. Child's early film work addressed the interplay between sound and image through reshaping narrative tropes, prefiguring many concerns of contemporary film and media.