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Zoe Beloff works across a wide range of media, including film, stereoscopic projection performance, interactive media, installation and drawing. Seeking to graphically manifest the mind's unconscious processes in her work, she uses both archaic apparatuses and new analog/digital hybrids. Beloff has written that she considers herself a medium, an interface between the living and the dead, the real and the imaginary. With each project she aims to connect the present with the past, to create new visual languages where, she writes, "modern media will once again be invested with the uncanny."
Beloff, who has directed many independent films, has also created numerous interactive digital media projects. Her interest in early cinema has led her to explore links between 19th-century industrial mechanics and 20th- and 21st-century computer technologies, in the transition from the "real" world to virtual space. Writes Beloff: "Interactive cinema is itself an emerging media. Its language is in the process of being invented. This is my ongoing project."
Beloff has collaborated with artists from other disciplines, including composer John Cale, the Wooster Group Theater Company, and composer, singer and performance artist Shelley Hirsch.
Beloff was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and moved to New York in 1980. She received an MA from Edinburgh University and an MFA in film studies from Columbia University, and was in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2003), The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts (1997), NYFA (1997, 2001), The Graham foundation, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and Change City College to Queens College CUNY. She has received individual artist grants from foundations including NYSCA, Jerome Foundation and the Experimental Television Center, and has had residencies at Harvestworks, Hallwalls in Buffalo and Tesla in Berlin. She teaches digital media at City College in New York.
Her work has been shown internationally at venues that include The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Freud Dream Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Biennial de l'image, Paris; Galerie Vox, Montreal; San Francisco Cinematheque, 2009 Athens Biennale; and MuHKA Museum. Antwerp, among others. Her exhibition The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle was exhibited at the Coney Island Museum in Brooklyn from October 2009 to November 2010.
Beloff lives in New York.
Most Popular Zoe Beloff Trailers
Total trailers found: 27
03 September 2015
An exploration of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein's notes and drawings for a science fiction movie that he pitched to Paramount in 1930 about the residents of a skyscraper with walls and floors of clear glass.
01 January 1989
Alice ends up in the derelict houses of Coney Island and Times Square. She sinks into a wonderland of decadence and despair, into the no-mans-land of lost souls, charlatans, broken dreams and cheap perversions.
14 October 2009
(Fictional history):
This film was made by in 1937 Arthur Rosenzweig, a member of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society.
03 September 2015
The saga of a movie treatment written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht during his unhappy stint in Hollywood based on a Life Magazine article about a farm family who win a week's stay in a model home at the Ohio State Fair, with the catch that they will be on display to the public.
15 May 2000
The title and the narrative are taken from the 1897 autobiography of Elizabeth d’Espérance, a materializing medium who could produce full body apparitions.
29 July 2022
This interview is with Ah Bao, a knife sharpener and shoe repair man in New York City's Chinatown.
21 December 2012
Zoe Beloff introduces the other installation, Days of the Commune, in her exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery.
16 November 2022
This interview is with Michael Paul Britto, Community Coordinator at Forsyth Satellite Academy High School, as well as an arts educator and artist.
18 April 2005
Augustine was the most extensively photographed of the young women hysterics at the Salpêtrière in Paris of the 1870's She was 'the Sarah Bernhardt' of the asylum.
27 January 2018
Our emotions are increasingly being turned into commodities, manipulated by global corporations. This hack of an IBM commercial suggests how.
15 October 2009
(Fictional history):
Year: 1926
Filmmaker: Albert Grass
Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from a 16mm black and white Kodak safely film original.
04 August 2021
In 1948 the James Agee wrote a scenario for his lifelong hero, Charlie Chaplin. Deeply disturbed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Agee imagined New York destroyed.
13 October 2009
(Fictional history)
A film by Stella Weiss (1962) 16mm silent
13 October 2009
(Fictional history):
Years: 1926,1927,1934
Filmmakers: not known
Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from a 16mm black and white Kodak safely film original.
17 October 2009
(Fictional history):
Year: 1931
Filmmaker: Charmian de Forde
Music: Duke Ellington, "Mooche", "Black and Tan"
Transfer note: copied at 24 frames per second from a 16mm black and white Kodak print with variable density optical sound track.
16 October 2009
Teddy Weisengrund, a member of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society, recreates one of his dreams on film and analyzes it according to Freud's theories.
01 January 1997
Beyond is a mysterious virtual world. In a playful spirit of philosophical inquiry, it explores the paradoxes of technology, desire and the paranormal posed since the birth of mechanical reproduction.
21 October 2009
(Fictional history):
Year : 1964
Filmmaker: Robert Troutman "Bobby Beaujolais"
Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from an 8mm Kodachrome camera original with magnetic stripped sound.
18 October 2009
(Fictional history):
Year: 1945
Filmmaker: Molly Lippman
Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from a Regular 8mm black and white Kodak film, and Regular 8mm Kodachrome original.
22 October 2009
(Fictional history)
A film by Eddie Kammerer (1972), 16mm sound
01 January 1986
Inspired by J.G. Ballard's novel Crash, the film focuses on Jack and Diana Weston, who, after suffering a car crash, find their lives intruded upon by Dr.
19 October 2009
(Fictional history):
Year: 1954
Filmmaker: Beverly d'Angelo
Transfer note: copied at 24 frames per second from a 16mm Kodachrome original with magnetic stripped sound.
17 December 2017
Zoe Beloff Surprise: Bertold Brecht and Walter Benjamin have been reincarnated as an Iranian and an African-American and they roam today’s New York.
03 September 2015
Russian avant-garde filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and German playwright Bertolt Brecht recount the brief portions of their lives they spent in Hollywood trying to make art that was both radical and popular.
10 January 2026
Evocative yet playful, Life Forgotten asks, how does everyday entertainment bring people together and act as a catalyst for social change? Situating archival film in parallel with reenactment, the film conjures up New York’s Lower East Side in the early years of the twentieth century, it centers on a real storefront cinema, Frank Seiden’s Variety Theater.
01 January 2011
The Infernal Dream incorporates two archival motion pictures Motion Studies Application and Folie a Deux both artlessly made instructional productions from the early 1950’s.
