Zoe Beloff

Zoe Beloff is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. With a focus on social justice, she draws timelines between past and present to imagine a more egalitarian future. Her films are built on historical research and imaginative re-enactment. They include proposals for new forms of community, and projects that explore relationships between labor, technology and our inner lives. She created two films on the origins of cinema from a feminist perspective, focusing on women who shaped our desire for moving images in complex ways at the end of the 19th century; “Shadow Land” based on the autobiography of a materializing medium, and “Charming Augustine” based on a case history of a ‘hysteric’. She also wrote and directed trilogy of movies exploring ideas for films proposed by never realized by radical artists; Eisenstein’s scenario “Glass House”, Brecht’s “A Model Family in a Model Home “and James Agee’s “The Tramp’s New World.” Zoe’s work has been featured in international venues that include the Whitney Museum, MoMA, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Berlin Berlinale, the M HKA museum in Antwerp, IFFR and FID Marseille. She has been awarded fellowships from the Graham Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.