SHADOW LAND OR LIGHT FROM THE OTHER SIDE

Screening:13th International Magic Lantern Convention
Date: July 12th - 12.30 to 2.30 pm screening and discussion with media archeologist Erkki Huhtamo
Place: Goethe Institute Washington
812 Seventh Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-3718

Stereoscopic 16mm B/W Film Sound 32 minutes. 2000Cast: Kate Valk,Paul Lazar, Gen Ken Montgomery, Luna Montgomery,Shelley Hirsch.

A 3D film based on the 1897 autobiography of Elizabeth D’Espérance, a materialization medium who could produce full body apparitions.

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A demo DVD (not in 3D) may be purchased from the Museum of Jurassic Technology on-line store.

A performance for stereo slides, hand-cranked projector and 78 rpm gramaphone records. 20 minutes 1995

A document of everyday life on New York's Lower East Side. To paraphrase Walter Benjamin; a spectacle not of life remembered but of life forgotten. Like dream images these cinematic fragments are hieroglyphic clues to a past illuminated at the very moment of its disappearance.

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THE SOMNAMBULISTS

Exhibition:Bellwether Gallery
Dates: August 25 to October 4
Place: 134 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10011

An installation comprising of five miniature wooden theaters/dioramas into which moving images are projected. Two stereoscopic HD videos each 11 minutes, color, sound. Four archival films, each approximately 1 minute, black and white, sound. 2007

Cast: Shelley Hirsch, Steven Rattazzi, Jay Smith, Rachel Neuman, Aubyn Philabaum, Tea Alagic
Musical Director: Shelley Hirsch
Technical realization: Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy

This installation centers on the idea of "staging the unconscious”. Each theater presents a hysterical drama. These include “History of a Fixed Idea” and “A Modern Case of Possession” in which two patients of the famous French psycho-pathologist Pierre Janet, express their delusions in song. The other theaters present the ghostly specters of actual hysterics filmed by doctors a hundred years ago.