ABSTRACT
Zoe Beloff is an artist who uses 3D movies to explore her artistic concerns. She typically examines dreams and nightmares and Freudian psychoanalysis with her work, and it is usually exhibited in an art gallery or museum context rather than an actual movie theater. With two separate films, Shadow Land or Light from the Other Side (2000), a 3D 16mm black-and-white film, and The Somnambulists (2007), a 3D HD video installation, Beloff makes very creative use of stereoscopic cinematography and exhibition. In The Somnambulists, video is rear-projected into a miniature theater so that viewers see small virtual actors on the stage of an actual little theater made of wood. The 3D movie is then incorporated into a work of sculpture. Similarly, she has also built miniature houses that enclose video projections with a “Pepper’s ghost” technique within the structure.
