Covert Action   00:07:30 1984
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 Ôfacts' 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."	Biography of Abigail Child Titles by Abigail Child: Both Covert Action Mayhem Mercy Mutiny Perils Prefaces Swamp