Abigail Child has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film/video works and installations, and written six books. An acknowledged pioneer in montage, Child addresses the interplay between sound and image, with cultural and urban displacements at the heart of her concerns. Child is the principal director, cinematographer, and editor on her films. Her work involves intimate collaborations, with poets: Monica de la Torre (To and No Fro), Gary Sullivan (Mirror World), Nada Gordon (Ligatures), and Adeena Karasick (Salomé); as well as with notable downtown composers including John Zorn (The Future Is Behind You), Ikue Mori (B/side, 8 Million), Zeena Parkins (Unbound, Mayhem), Christian Marclay (Mayhem, Surface Noise), and Andrea Parkins (Vis A Vis, Acts and Intermissions). Her films, compulsive visual and aural legerdemain, have been widely awarded and shown internationally. In 2020-2021 Child has completed her film Origin of the Species and currently is working on a feature experimental documentary on climate change on Nova Scotia’s South Shore working title: Precipice.