Covert Action

Covert Action

  • Overview
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1984

Runtime

0h 10m

Original Title

Covert Action

Director

Abigail Child

Description

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 ‘facts’ 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.”