Zoe Beloff

Biography

Zoe Beloff is an artist and filmmaker. Her work is exhibited internationally; venues include MoMA, The Whitney Museum, Site Santa Fe, Akademie der Künste Berlin, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. She is a frequent contributor festivals that include the International Film Festival Rotterdam, FID Marseilles and the BFI Festival London. 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. Her work creates new timelines connecting past to present so that it might illuminate the future in new ways. Her projects often involve a range of media including films, drawings and archival documents organized around a theme. They include proposals for new forms of community; "The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926 - 1972" and "The Days of the Commune", projects that explore relationships between labor, technology and mental states in "The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff" and "Emotions go to Work" as well as the exploration of the origins of cinema from a feminist perspective in "Charming Augustine" and "Shadowland or Light from the Other Side". Her most recent film "Exile" addresses the relationship between American fascism in the 1930's and its resurgence today. She aims to make radical art that educates, entertains, and provokes discussion.