Films

Distribution Sources

AC Contact Abigail Child directly: achild@mindspring.com.

CC Canyon Cinema, 145 Ninth Street, Suite 260, San Francisco CA 94103; 415-626-2255; www.canyoncinema.com.
Note: in my experience, Canyon Cinema is the most dependable l6mm film distributor in the US, both in terms of its care in getting prints to exhibitors, in terms of the quality of the prints it distributes and paying the filmmakers.
CFDC Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Suite 220, 37 Hanna Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M6K 1W8 Canada; 416-588-0725; www.cfmdc.org.

FMC Film-makers' Cooperative, c/o Clocktower Gallery, 108 Leonard St., New York, NY 10013; 212-267-5665; www.film-makerscoop.com.

LC Lightcone, 12 rue des Vignoles, 75020 Paris, France; 33 (0) 1 46 59 03 12; www.lightcone.org.

LUX LUX, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ, UK; 44 (0) 20 7503 3980; www.lux.org.uk.

NA Not available.

NV New Video, 902 Broadway FL 9, New York, NY 10010; (212) 206-8600; www.newvideo.com

TWN Third World Newsreel, 545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018 ; 212-947-9277; www.twn.org

VDB Video Data Bank, 112 S. Micxhigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60603; 312-345-3550; www.vdb.org. [They have both videos and videos of certain films.]

WMM Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 500WS, New york, NY 10013; 212-925-0606 ext. 320; www.wmm.com.

Correlation of films with distribution sources:

ongoing BY DESIRE (video) feature documentary/ 3-screen installation NA

ongoing SURF AND TURF, Part 3. of The Suburban Trilogy (l6mm/dvd) NA

2011 A SHAPE OF ERROR Feature film on Mary and Percy Shelley in form of imaginary home movies AC

2011 THE SUBURBAN TRILOGY, film and dv FMC, AC

2010 HACKING EMPIRE- single screen version of L'Impero Invertito AC

2010 RIDING THE TIGER: Letters from Capitalist China. Feature digital Video AC

2009 IF I CAN SING A SONG ABOUT LIGATURES w/ Nada Gordon (part of FOREIGN FILM SERIES) digital AC

2007 SCENE 28: Pingyao China (digital) for Dziga Vertov Project (Installation) AC

2007 ON THE DOWNLOW (digital) feature documentary dir. by Child (editor: Yael Bitton + AC; Camera: Arthur Jafa) NV, TWN, AC

2007-04 THE PARTY (digital) (editor: Yael Bitton + AC; Camera: Robert Banks +AC) AC

2006 MIRROR WORLDS Installation, includes Dark Dark and To And No Fro simultaneous projection AC

2006 MIRROR WORLD, l6mm to dvcam. w/ Gary Sullivan (part of FOREIGN FILM SERIES) FMC, AC

2006 BY DESIRE (digital) 3-screen installation AC

2005 TO AND NO FRO. 16mm to dvcam. w/ Monica de la Torre. (part of FOREIGN FILM SERIES) AC

2004 BLOND FUR (film/digital) loop from CAKE AND STEAK, shown individually [aka CAKE AND STEAK] AC

2004 THE FUTURE IS BEHIND YOU (film/digital) Part 2. of The Suburban Trilogy AC

2003-04 CAKE AND STEAK (film/digital) long version Part 1. The Suburban Trilogy FMC, AC

2003 THE MILKY WAY installation (film) AC

2002 SUBTALK (digital) w/Benton Bainbridge and Eric Rosenzveig AC

2001 DARK DARK (film) part 2 How the World Works CC, FMC

2000 SURFACE NOISE part 1 from How the World Works (film) CC, FMC, LUX

1999 BELOW THE NEW (video) CC, FMC, VDB

1998-9 CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (script w/ M. Ragona)

1996 B/SIDE (film) CC, FMC, LUX, LC

1995 THROUGH THE LOOKING LASS (w/ L. Champagne) interactive video AC

1994 DINKINSVILLE (video) AC

1993 SONGS (nteractive video performance) w/B. Bainbridge, Vicky Funari + Ikue Mori AC

1993 8 MILLION ('video album' w/ Ikue Mori) VDB, LC

1990-91 SWAMP (w/ S. Schulman) VDB

1990 SWAMP SONGS (interactive video w/ I. Mori) AC

1989 MERCY part 7 from Is This What You Were Born For? (film-sound) CC, CFDC, FMC, LUX, WMM, VDB

1988 BOTH part 3 from Is This What You Were Born For? (film-sound) CC, FMC

1987 MAYHEM part 6 from Is This What You Were Born For? (film-sound) CC, CFDC, FMC, LUX, VDB, WMM

1985-86 PERILS part 5 from Is This What You Were Born For? (film-sound) CC, CFDC, FMC, VDB, WMM

1984 COVERT ACTION part 4 from Is This What You Were Born For? (film-sound) CC, CFDC, FMC, LC, LUX

1982-83 MUTINY part 2 from Is This What You Were Born For? (film-sound) CC, FMC, LC

1981 PREFACES part 1 from Is This What You Were Born For? (film-sound) CC, FMC, LUX

1979 ORNAMENTALS (silent) CC, FMC

1979 PACIFIC FAR EAST LINE (silent) CC

1978 PERIPETEIA II (silent) CC

1978 DAYLIGHT TEST SECTION (silent) CC

1977 PERIPETEIA I (silent) CC

1977 SOME EXTERIOR PRESENCE (silent) CC

1975 TAR GARDEN (sound) AC

1972 GAME w/Jon Child AC

1970 EXCEPT THE PEOPLE w/Jon Child AC