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Psychic Projections: 3-D Film Performances by Zoe Beloff

Co-presented with PICA's TBA Festival

Sep. 11 + 12 - 4:00 pm
Artist-in-Attendance
Guild Theatre
829 SW Park Avenue
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About This Screening

New York based film and media artist Zoe Beloff uses both digital and archaic film trickery to create phantasmagorical worlds where mediums conjure up, calling shadowy beings into reality. Drawing from cinema history, psychoanalytical studies, and 19th century accounts of seances and mediums, Beloff's multi-media works create a dialogue between technology and the unconscious. For her first Portland appearance, Beloff will present two different programs of work. On Saturday, she will show Shadow Land or Light from the Other Side and Lost. Shadow Land is a stereoscopic, 16mm film drawn from the 1897 autobiography of Elizabeth d'Espérance, a materializing medium who could produce full body apparitions. Lost uses archaic home entertainment devices—stereoscopic slides, hand-cranked 16mm projection, and phonographs—to recreate forgotten storefronts in New York¹s Lower East Side. For Sunday's program, Beloff will show her most recent work, Claire and Don in Slumberland, a combination of stereo 35mm slides and 16mm projection. Set against the empty, quiet background of Pleasure Beach, Connecticut, Claire and Don act as conduits for the voices of the past and the fears and anxieties of the surrounding culture.

Program Details

Saturday September 11
  • Shadow Land or Light from the Other Side
    2000, 16mm, b&w, sound, 32 min.
  • Lost
    1997, stereo slides/16mm, color, sound, 37 min
Sunday September 12
  • Claire and Don in Slumberland
    2002, stereo slides/16mm, color, sound, 37 min.
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