Rebekah Rutkoff is a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2015-16). She is currently working on a book about the language of dreaming and cure in ancient medicine and the work of filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos. She is the author of The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions (semiotext(e), 2015) and the editor of a forthcoming book of writings by and about the filmmaker Robert Beavers for the Austrian Film Museum/Columbia UP.