Covert Action is a stunning melange of rapid-fire retro imagery accomplishing Childâs proclaimed goal to âdisarm my movies.â âI 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 âfactsâ 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.â