"Parade of the Old and New"

Prof Beloff's talk will focus on how she conceptualizes history in her recent work and why it is so important to address the past today. She will screen and discuss excerpts from her projects “The Days of the Commune” (2012), “A World Redrawn” (2016) and her latest film, “Exile,” currently in post production. 

Zoe Beloff is an artist, filmmaker, and Professor in the departments of Media Studies and Art at Queen's College CUNY. She grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1980 she moved to New York to study at Columbia University where she received an MFA in Film. Her work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings, as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Site Santa Fe, the M HKA museum in Antwerp, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. Prof Beloff works with a wide range of media including film, projection performance, installation, and drawing. She considers herself a medium, an interface between the living and the dead, the real and the imaginary. Each project aims to connect the present to past so that it might illuminate the future in new ways. Her most recent completed project is A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood. Through films, drawings, architectural models, and archival documents, Zoe explores their unrealized film scenarios “Glass House” and “A Model Family in a Model Home” and reimagines their ideas for today. She has been awarded fellowships from The Graham Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. 

 

This event is free and open to the public. Generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.