Ericka Beckman Movies

A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the...

A three-part video epic in which avant-garde artist Vito Acconci explores the relationship between the self and national mythology. Through multiple...

“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...

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...

“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...

New York's No Wave scene, recorded on Super-8mm, performing in a sparse downtown loft.

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...

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...

STALK is a 23-minute experimental single screen film created from the elements of an October 2021 NYC Performa Biennial commission. Adapted from the...

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...

"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...

Short film.

"Tension Building is a composite of linked architectural spaces, some are real and some are models. It combines stop motion and live action...

Short film.

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...

“HIATUS is a 20-minute experimental narrative film about a young woman who plays HIATUS, an on-line interactive ‘identity’ game....

“THE BROKEN RULE is my reaction to the American education system, where learning blocks must be acquired by the group before any individual can...

“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...

“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...