Kerry Laitala and Zoe Beloff share a fascination with the shadowy, unexplored areas of cinema. Laitala's mesmerizing films draw out the mystery and unexpected poetry of cinema, whether in found footage or her own intricate experiments pushing the boundaries of film. Using filters, out-of-date film stock, and hand-processing, she creates unique and magical images which glimmer and pulsate with oblique messages in Adventure Parade (2000, 5.5 mins, Silent, Color) and Awake but Dreaming (2000, 8 mins, Color). In retrospectroscope (1997, 4 mins, Silent, B&W) a handmade paracinematic device spins us into oblivion, while in Escapades of Madame X (2000, 10.5 mins, B&W), made with Isabel Reichert and inspired by Busby Berkeley, it is a woman who holds the camera. Beloff's most recent film is the stereoscopic Shadow Land or Light from the Other Side (2000, 32 mins, B&W), based on the 1897 autobiography of a medium who could produce incredible apparitions. Beloff suggests that the film "shows how one might think of a medium as a kind of 'mental projector' and the phantoms as representations of her psychic reality. While the twentieth-century cinema can be described as a 'window' onto another world, the nineteenth century conceived of specters that could cross over into our own world. Hence my decision to photograph with a stereo camera. I will screen the film in conjunction with slides of source material that inspired it."