Mutiny(1983)

Name: Mutiny
Director: Abigail Child
Released: 1983-01-01
Rating: 5
Cast: Polly Bradfield, Sally Silvers, Erica Hunt, Shelley Hirsch

01/01/1983 (US)0h 11m

5.0

Overview

Mutiny employs a panoply of expression, gesture, and repeated movement. Its central images are of women: at home, on the street, at the workplace, at school, talking, singing, jumping on trampolines, playing the violin. The syntax of the film reflects the possibilities and limitations of speech, while “politically, physically, and realistically” flirting with the language of opposition.

Abigail Child

Director

Top Billed Cast

Polly Bradfield

Violinist (uncredited)

Sally Silvers

Dancer (uncredited)

Erica Hunt

Poet (uncredited)

Shelley Hirsch

Singer (uncredited)

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Part of the Is This What You Were Born For?

“Abigail Child’s series IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR? is one of the most assured and important projects to have emerged over the last decade. Constructing from and subverting a wide galaxy of source materials, these films are archeological digs into the very stuff, the conceptions, we are born into. Child decomposes the materials and gestures that would compose us. The films are charged with a startling and playful musicality and poetic and rigorous compression. Each image and sound cuts deep and works over time containing hidden and unhidden detonations working against the manufactured ambush that images have in store. Agile dances through treacherous debris, they negotiate an obstacle course of polar anatomies zig-zagging with corkscrew twists and nuclear splits -- a gambol against the hazards.