Zoe Beloff

Biography

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, s…

Directed

1. The Bear Dream (2009) — Director
2. Two Marxists in Hollywood (2015) — Director
3. The Abandoned Ark (2009) — Director
4. The Lion Dream (2009) — Director
5. The Praying Mantis (2009) — Director
6. The Midget Crane (2009) — Director
7. Chasing Louis Schnekowitz (2009) — Director
8. Wonderland USA (1989) — Director
9. The Tramp's New World (2021) — Director
10. Charming Augustine (2005) — Director
11. Glass House (2015) — Director
12. A Model Family in a Model Home (2015) — Director
13. Shadowland or Light from the Other Side (2000) — Director
14. Nightmare Angel (1986) — Director
15. Visitor (1983) — Director
16. A REALITY SHOW (2022) — Director
17. SEVEN DAYS A WEEK (2022) — Director
18. Exile (2017) — Director
19. The Cognitive Era (2018) — Director
20. The Lonely Chicken Dream (2009) — Director
21. My Dream of Dental Irritation (2009) — Director
22. The Society Documents Itself (2009) — Director
23. The Bobsled (2009) — Director
24. Days of the Commune (2012) — Director
25. The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society — Director
26. Beyond (1997) — Director
27. The Infernal Dream (2011) — Director
28. Life Forgotten (2026) — Director
29. Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse People — Director

Also appeared in

1. Beyond (1997) — Herself