Cinema/Video
Zoe Beloff
The Tramp’s New World
03 Nov 2021
03 Nov 2021
The event is over
American artist Zoe Beloff’s latest film The Tramp’s New World retraces the story of American novelist, screenwriter and film critic James Agee and his screenplay of the same name. James Agee wrote the screenplay in 1948 after being deeply affected by the trauma of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
How can the apocalypse be survived and how can the post-disaster world be envisaged? Agee intended Charlie Chaplin to play the main role of a person who witnesses the end of civilisation. The film was never made. Zoe Beloff offers a personal interpretation, combining documentary research with Brechtian staging.
James Agee, Helen Levitt, and Janice Loeb, In the Street, 1952, 16mm film, black and white, sound, 16 min
Zoe Beloff, The Tramp's New World, 2021, DCP, colour and black and white, sound, 62 min. (European premiere)
Screening in the presence of the artist, alongside her solo exhibition at Treize (24 rue Moret, Paris 11ème, 6 November - 5 December).
Acknowledgments: Zoe Beloff, Fanny Schulmann, Baptiste Pinteaux and Pascaline Morincôme.
Where
Cinema 2, level –1
When
03 Nov 2021
Zoe Beloff, The Tramp’s New World, 2021
© Zoe Beloff