Zoe Beloff

Glass House

Zoe Beloff

Jim Fletcher, Kate Valk

An exploration of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein's notes and drawings for a science fiction movie that he pitched to Paramount in 1930 about the residents of a skyscraper with walls and floors of clear glass.

Wonderland USA

Zoe Beloff

Eszter Balint, John Cale

Alice ends up in the derelict houses of Coney Island and Times Square. She sinks into a wonderland of decadence and despair, into the no-mans-land of lost souls, charlatans, broken dreams and cheap perversions.

Exile

Zoe Beloff

Afshin Hashemi, Eric Berryman

Zoe Beloff Surprise: Bertold Brecht and Walter Benjamin have been reincarnated as an Iranian and an African-American and they roam today’s New York. At times they are a comic duo, at others the voice of our conscience: the babbling couple provides good weapons to attack the world.

A Model Family in a Model Home

Zoe Beloff

Vladimir Weigl, Anthony Wellman

The saga of a movie treatment written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht during his unhappy stint in Hollywood based on a Life Magazine article about a farm family who win a week's stay in a model home at the Ohio State Fair, with the catch that they will be on display to the public.

Nightmare Angel

Zoe Beloff, Susan Emerling

Bill Moseley, Audrey Matson

Inspired by J.G. Ballard's novel Crash, the film focuses on Jack and Diana Weston, who, after suffering a car crash, find their lives intruded upon by Dr. de Freis, a chronicler of car accidents who attempts to verify the psychological changes that occur in victims of accidents and the subsequent articulation of their anxieties.

The Abandoned Ark

Zoe Beloff

(Fictional history): Year: 1962 Filmmaker: Stella Weiss Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from 16mm black and white Kodak safely film and Kodachrome Regular 8mm. Running time: 4 minutes Silent

The Lion Dream

Zoe Beloff, Teddy Weisengrund

Teddy Weisengrund, a member of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society, recreates one of his dreams on film and analyzes it according to Freud's theories.

The Bear Dream

Zoe Beloff

(Fictional history): This film was made by in 1937 Arthur Rosenzweig, a member of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society. Here he recreates one of his dreams on film and analyzes it according to Freud's theories.

The Praying Mantis

Zoe Beloff

(Fictional history): Year: 1931 Filmmaker: Charmian de Forde Music: Duke Ellington, "Mooche", "Black and Tan" Transfer note: copied at 24 frames per second from a 16mm black and white Kodak print with variable density optical sound track. Running time: 6 minutes 22 seconds

Two Marxists in Hollywood

Zoe Beloff

Ben Taylor, Bryan Yoshi Brown

Russian avant-garde filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and German playwright Bertolt Brecht recount the brief portions of their lives they spent in Hollywood trying to make art that was both radical and popular.

Chasing Louis Schnekowitz

Zoe Beloff

(Fictional history): Year: 1945 Filmmaker: Molly Lippman Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from a Regular 8mm black and white Kodak film, and Regular 8mm Kodachrome original. Running time: 3 minutes 46 seconds Silent

The Midget Crane

Zoe Beloff

(Fictional history): Year: 1926 Filmmaker: Albert Grass Transfer note: copied at 18 frames per second from a 16mm black and white Kodak safely film original. Running time: 2 minutes 41 seconds Silent

Charming Augustine

Zoe Beloff

Augustine was the most extensively photographed of the young women hysterics at the Salpêtrière in Paris of the 1870's She was 'the Sarah Bernhardt' of the asylum. This is her story.

The Tramp's New World

Zoe Beloff

Barrett Martin, Diana DeLaCruz

In 1948 the James Agee wrote a scenario for his lifelong hero, Charlie Chaplin. Deeply disturbed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Agee imagined New York destroyed. In the ruins, Chaplin's Little Tramp builds a shack in Central Park. Gradually a small community of the dispossessed grows up around him. For Agee, his story was a thought experiment about how one might start again in the aftermath of disaster, to go beyond capitalism and just how hard that is in the face of our modern technological world. The film focuses on his imaginative journey and what it might mean for us today.

The Bobsled

Zoe Beloff

(Fictional history): Year: 1972 Filmmaker: Eddie Kammerer Transfer note: copied at 24 frames per second from a16mm Black and White Kodak reversal camera original and Kodachrome camera original with magnetic stripped sound. Music: "Sisters of Mercy" by Leonard Cohen Running time: 2 minutes 5 seconds

The Cognitive Era

Zoe Beloff

Our emotions are increasingly being turned into commodities, manipulated by global corporations. This hack of an IBM commercial suggests how. What does the future hold for a world where people are treated like objects, while online objects are being granted agency and becoming increasingly anthropomorphic?