Location: McKnight Art Center, Room 210

Conceived and selected by artist and filmmaker Zoe Beloff and film curator Rebecca Cleman, this film series accompanies Beloff’s multimedia exhibition, Zoe Beloff: Emotions Go to Work, which is on display at the Ulrich Museum of Art on the WSU campus from Jan. 23 to March 29. Elaborating the exhibition's central themes, concerns, and ideas, each screening will be accompanied by Notes created by the series curators.

Theme: Our Aliens: Emotions from the Other Side.

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” J. Robert Oppenheimer uttered these ominous words after the detonation of the first atomic bomb. They return to me in Tomb Raider, the video game and film franchise whose name itself suggests a kingdom of shadows, a netherworld of shivering electronic impulses that endlessly morph into crude simulacra of our own hallucinated fears: piranha fish, raptors, and men with AK47’s. Through this valley of death traverses our avatar Lara Croft. In Tomb Raider, Lara dies and dies again but cannot, ultimately, ever die, trapped in digital purgatory; the worst of all possible worlds. She is a killing machine and a dying machine, the new flesh and a pixel body of digital tits and ass, an object of male fantasy and object of male fear. She must be desired and punished for all eternity.

Films featured on March 20:

She Puppet (2001)
directed by Peggy Ahwesh (15 minutes)

Humans – Season 3, episodes 1 and 2 (2018)
(94 minutes)

Emotions Go to Work: The Film Series is presented by the Ulrich Museum of Art and co-hosted by mamafilm independent microcinema.

All screenings are free and open to the public.