Shelley Hirsch & Zoe Beloff @ Roulette: experimental music & film

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
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An Evening to Benefit Roulette!

Shelley Hirsch - singing to film soundtracks by the late great Bernard
Herrmann

Zoe Beloff - presenting her film "Charming Augustine"

Shelley Hirsch is "an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist,
composer, and performance artist" (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses
story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations,
collaborations, installations and radioplays, which have been presented on
5 continents…

She can be heard on over 50 CDs, including her solo and duo CDs, her
storytelling CD "O Little Town of East New York" (Tzadik), "Haiku Lingo"
(No Mans Land) and the LP "Singing" (Apollo), and on cds by Jim Staley,
John Zorn, Butch Morris, Billy Martin, Elliott Sharp, Richard Teitelbaum,
Alvin Curran, Raz Mesinai, David Watson, Robert Dick, Joseph Celli/Jin Hi
Kim and with the groups X-Communication and September Band … and many
more. www.shelleyhirsch.com

Zoe Beloff works with a variety of cinematic imagery: film, stereoscopic
projection performance, interactive media and installation. Her projects
are philosophical toys, objects to think with. More and more she finds
herself fascinated by phantoms, by images that "are not there". Her work
investigates the space where technology intersects with unconscious
desire. Zoe’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues including
The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Rotterdam
Film festival, Pacific Film Archives and the Pompidou Center.
www.zoebeloff.com

Tonight she will screen her film, "Charming Augustine", with original
music by Miguel Fransconi. "Charming Augustine" was inspired by series of
photographs and texts on hysteria published in the 1880s. It is an
experimental narrative exploring connections between attempts to document
varying mental states and the prehistory of narrative film. The work
conveys a fragile, spectral, “what if” … a moment in time when the moving
image was on the brink of existence in a form not yet standardized.

"Charming Augustine"
Stereoscopic 16mm B/W Film Sound 40 minutes.
Cast: Tea Alagic, Greg Mehrten, Josh Stark, Steven Rattazi, Kevin Maher,
Eileen White, Eliza Fernbach
Original music: Miguel Frasconi