(2012, 14 x 12.5 inches)
(2008, 9.5 x 19.5 inches)
(2012, 9.5 x 15 inches)
(2010; 4 screen installation for Rome Academy)
Child responds to the darker side of Rome, the side that emanates power and military force, as well as to the Cryptoporticus itself, where corridors with arches at end mime streets through which armies, heraldic or attacking, historically enter Rome. The result is a multi-projector video that establishes women and children (usually victims of war) as Emperors and Triumphators, contrasting with scenes from both ancient and contemporary expansionist exploits. HACKING EMPIRE - single screen version of L'Impero Invertito.
(2007, Pingyao China for Dziga Vertov Project)
Created for Perry Bard’s The Man With the Movie Camera: The Global Remake (https://www.perrybard.net/man-with-a-movie-camera). For Scene 28, Child had just returned from China in 2006 and instantly thought of the Cigarette Girl in MWAMC who is sped up by Vertov as she works in the factory line. Child took that section as inspiration and edited the noodle-maker from Pinyao, China who was artfully spinning his Mongolian-style noodles into meals for the customers.
For Background: In 2006, Bard proposed The Man With the Movie Camera: The Global Remake as a much-expanded exercise in remaking Vertov’s film. Simply put, the idea was to design a website on which contributors could upload individual shots corresponding to those in Vertov’s original work. The site would also provide an opportunity to screen the remake in tandem with the original. The idea was funded as a project for the BBC’s Bigger Screen Initiative, whose aim is to place large digital screens in British town squares. [Review from: https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc52.2010/FeldmanVertov/text.html]
(2006)
“Child simultaneously projects three films on different walls, all soundtracks running. To the left and right are black-and-white montages of Hollywood’s bygone genres, and ahead (at center stage) is her newest film, a full-color riff on Bollywood. Here, Child’s fragmentation techniques break into the human realm, and we emerge transformed….. Child’s cutting techniques reconfigure sensory/cinematic perception altogether.” — Karen Schiff in Big Red & Shiny. BIG RED AND SHINY, Issue 42. 5/06
(2006, 3-screen installation)
BY DESIRE is an experimental digital video exploring issues of bisexual, transgender & down-low identities. The work is sexy, groundbreaking & long overdue.
(2003, installation version of 16mm film DARK DARK)
Dark Dark is projected on a handmade circular screen. The result is a magical rendering of the city streets and also forming an analogy to the human eye where light is inverted before the mind re-reads it. Dark Dark itself is full of inversions and the round screen memes the eye of the viewer.