Mayhem (1987)

In 1983 filmmaker and poet Abigail Child cut up old footage from Between Times a documentary profile of high school girls in Minneapolis which she had produced for WNETPBS back in 1975 That footage would then be integrated into work of a drastically different kind The film was called Mutiny which by its very name signaled her abandonment of the humanist documentary tradition to which Between Times belonged to become in her words a prismatic rhythmic pinwheel born of the artistic and political necessity to radically rethink form Mutiny in turn stood as one of the most densely woven in a series of bold experiments that came to be known as Is This What You Were Born For