Covert Action

“Covert Action” examines the seduction behind social interaction, remaking these gestures into a dance through the use of looped movies. I wanted to foreground the multiple fictions, the “facts” forever obscured in the fragments of memory. The result is an ambiguous narrative developed by its periphery, impossible to trace, disturbing, explosive. (Abigail Child) “Here rupture and repetition comprise the structuring principle. The film explodes in your face; it drives on until its final image, a summation of its prehistory, history and future – a tree being uprooted. What could be a more apt metaphor for the contemporary crisis in narrativity and sexuality?” – Robert Hilferty, New York Native