Recently published in both French and English by Geneva’s MetisPresses as part of their PLANSécant collection, Is This What You Were Born For?: Stratégies d’appropriation et collage audio-visuel focuses on (and takes its title from) Child’s signature series of films, bringing together five essays examining different aspects of the BORN FOR series, an interview with Abigail Child, and transcriptions of her texts/poems, which form the soundtracks of the BORN FOR films. Edited by François Bovier with critical essays by Tom Gunning, Melissa Ragona, Redell Olsen, and Thomas Zummer.
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