Books
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.
