Author Description

Beckman began making films in the mid 1970s using Super-8 sound film. Neither documentaries nor narratives, these works, as J. Hoberman puts it, are 'like primitive cartoons... enigmatic allegories filled with nervous activity and comic violence, sexual imagery... perceptual game-playing and ingenious homemade optical effects.' This first anthology gathers three pieces from 1979 - 1980, made after her CalArts studies and featuring many other artists as actors.