Exhibiting Media Archaeological Art.

Description

Zoe Beloff works with a variety of (audio-)visual media from different eras, including pre-cinema and on through the 1950s, but also with digital technology. The apparatuses and devices she employs include film, stereoscopic projection, performance, interactive media and installation. Beloff rethinks histories of visual culture in non-linear ways and frequently deals with 19th century pre-cinematic media cultures. Though her work has a strong narrative dimension, it resists the standardization of narrative cinema and explores the question of how forgotten technologies might allow stories to be told differently. For Beloff, the apparatus is always a part of the storytelling process, part of the experience of understanding media. Beloff’s stereoscopic projections are particularly challenging for museums and film festivals because they involve multiple projectors, projection devices, special lenses, screens and glasses, all of which are nonstandard. The formats she employs include 3-D films, 3-D slides, stereoscopes, and phantograms. My talk will focus on works by Beloff which use projection apparatuses of an earlier era and which entail a 3–D effect.

Title of Event

XXV Udine-Gorizia International Film Studies Conference

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