Short film
Covert Action
1984 · 10 min
A rapid, disorienting collage of old footage that feels like a half-remembered dream, demanding you piece meaning from fragments.
- Directed by
- Abigail Child
- Overview
- Covert Action is a stunning melange of rapid-fire retro imagery accomplishing Child’s proclaimed goal to "disarm my movies." "I wanted to examine the erotic behind the social, and remake those gestures into a dance that would confront their conditioning and, as well, relay the multiple fictions the footage suggests (the ‘facts’ forever obscured in the fragments left us). The result is a narrative developed by its periphery, a story like rumor: impossible to trace, disturbing, explosive."
- How it feels
- Relentless and demanding.
- About
- Identity, media, obsession
- Content
- Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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