Ericka Beckman Trailers
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01 January 1989
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 of blind people and attempts to dominate their sensual, feminine culture with his male, sight-derived power.
11 May 1981
A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962).
17 July 2024
STALK is a 23-minute experimental single screen film created from the elements of an October 2021 NYC Performa Biennial commission.
13 February 2025
Short film created for the exhibition Ericka Beckman: Power of the Spin featuring an excerpt from Jon
01 January 1979
“THE BROKEN RULE is my reaction to the American education system, where learning blocks must be acquired by the group before any individual can progress to the next level.
20 October 2020
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 symbolising real estate.
01 January 1999
“HIATUS is a 20-minute experimental narrative film about a young woman who plays HIATUS, an on-line interactive ‘identity’ game.
31 December 2009
New York's No Wave scene, recorded on Super-8mm, performing in a sparse downtown loft.
01 January 1977
A three-part video epic in which avant-garde artist Vito Acconci explores the relationship between the self and national mythology.
02 January 1978
“Mario was a construction; the girl tried to imitate it. But she knew there was more that she could do.
01 January 2003
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 transitioned to shopping malls or global corporate office structures.
01 January 1976
"I was asking if language can express action in any meaningful way. I chose a structure for this film.
25 May 2014
"Tension Building is a composite of linked architectural spaces, some are real and some are models. It combines stop motion and live action filmmaking shot at the Harvard University Coliseum in Boston (1935) and the Municipal Stadium in Florence (1932), built in by Luigi Nervi.
22 May 2002
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 hybrid pinball/croquette game played by two off screen players.
16 April 1986
“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 repetitions where CINDERELLA is projected back and forth like a ping-pong ball between the hearth and the castle.
01 January 1983
“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 player cannot really affect the outcome.
01 January 1977
The film explores the phenomenon of when two things are perceived at the same time – as when two images combine in a double exposure.
02 January 1980
“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.