Ericka Beckman Movies
- 2003
Switch Center
Switch Center62003HD
Says Beckmann of her film: "SWITCH CENTER is a tribute to the futuristic architecture of the Soviet postwar period, and a reaction to seeing it...
- 2002
Frame Up
Frame Up02002HD
Frame UP is an 8-minute dual screen film that utilizes the construction zone of the Walker Art Center’s museum expansion as the platform for a...
- 1977
The Red Tapes
The Red Tapes01977HD
A three-part video epic in which avant-garde artist Vito Acconci explores the relationship between the self and national mythology. Through multiple...
- 1981
The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies
The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies01981HD
A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the...
- 2024
Stalk
Stalk02024HD
STALK is a 23-minute experimental single screen film created from the elements of an October 2021 NYC Performa Biennial commission. Adapted from the...
- 1986
Cinderella
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“CINDERELLA is a musical treatment of the fairy tale. I have broken apart the story and set it as a mechanical game with a series of...
- 1989
Blind Country
Blind Country61989HD
This collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country...
- 2020
Reach Capacity
Reach Capacity02020HD
Almost forty years after its first appearance in You The Better, the house returns as a character in Beckman’s new work Reach Capacity, now...
- 1983
You the Better
You the Better51983HD
“YOU THE BETTER is a film based on games of chance, and as games such as roulette, or craps go, this one is closed – meaning that the...
- 2009
135 Grand Street New York 1979
135 Grand Street New York 19794.52009HD
New York's No Wave scene, recorded on Super-8mm, performing in a sparse downtown loft.
- 1974
Pointing To
Pointing To01974HD
Short film.
- 1976
White Man Has Clean Hands
White Man Has Clean Hands01976HD
"I was asking if language can express action in any meaningful way. I chose a structure for this film. In the first half, a set of images followed...
- 2014
Tension Building
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"Tension Building is a composite of linked architectural spaces, some are real and some are models. It combines stop motion and live action...
- 1976
Double Beds
Double Beds01976HD
Short film.
- 1977
Hit and Run
Hit and Run01977HD
The film explores the phenomenon of when two things are perceived at the same time – as when two images combine in a double exposure. There is...
- 1999
Hiatus
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“HIATUS is a 20-minute experimental narrative film about a young woman who plays HIATUS, an on-line interactive ‘identity’ game....
- 1979
The Broken Rule
The Broken Rule01979HD
“THE BROKEN RULE is my reaction to the American education system, where learning blocks must be acquired by the group before any individual can...
- 1978
We Imitate; We Break Up
We Imitate; We Break Up01978HD
“Mario was a construction; the girl tried to imitate it. But she knew there was more that she could do. Mario limited her. In my imagination...
- 1980
Out of Hand
Out of Hand01980HD
“OUT OF HAND is a search film, where a small boy returns to a house that is being evacuated, to search for something that he left behind. His...