Rebekah Rutkoff is the author of The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions (Semiotext(e), 2015) and the editor of a book of essays by and about the American filmmaker Robert Beavers, forthcoming from the Austrian Film Museum/Columbia University Press. She has a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center and is a 2015-2016 Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She is currently working on two books: Cinematic Incubation, a project about a site-specific, pilgrimage-based work of cinema in Arcadia, Greece, and Sylvia and Geza, a hybrid work of fiction/non-fiction about psychoanalysis and abstract painting.