Covert Action (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 ‘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."

Released Jan. 1, 1984 10 min None+

Keywords: mdblist.belongs-to-collection, mdblist.collection-follow-up

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: No Language, English