Movies

  • 2024
    Stalk

    Stalk

    Stalk

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

    Stalk
  • 1981
    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies

    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies

    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies

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

    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies
  • 2020
    Reach Capacity

    Reach Capacity

    Reach Capacity

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    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...

    Reach Capacity
  • 1983
    You the Better

    You the Better

    You the Better

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    “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...

    You the Better
  • 2014
    Tension Building

    Tension Building

    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...

    Tension Building
  • 1977
    The Red Tapes

    The Red Tapes

    The Red Tapes

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

    The Red Tapes
  • 1989
    Blind Country

    Blind Country

    Blind Country

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    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...

    Blind Country
  • 1986
    Cinderella

    Cinderella

    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...

    Cinderella
  • 1976
    White Man Has Clean Hands

    White Man Has Clean Hands

    White Man Has Clean Hands

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    "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...

    White Man Has Clean Hands
  • 1974
    Pointing To

    Pointing To

    Pointing To

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    Short film.

    Pointing To
  • 2009
    135 Grand Street New York 1979

    135 Grand Street New York 1979

    135 Grand Street New York 1979

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

    135 Grand Street New York 1979
  • 2002
    Frame Up

    Frame Up

    Frame Up

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    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...

    Frame Up
  • 2003
    Switch Center

    Switch Center

    Switch Center

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    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...

    Switch Center
  • 1976
    Double Beds

    Double Beds

    Double Beds

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    Short film.

    Double Beds
  • 1999
    Hiatus

    Hiatus

    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....

    Hiatus
  • 1977
    Hit and Run

    Hit and Run

    Hit and Run

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    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...

    Hit and Run
  • 1979
    The Broken Rule

    The Broken Rule

    The Broken Rule

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

    The Broken Rule
  • 1978
    We Imitate; We Break Up

    We Imitate; We Break Up

    We Imitate; We Break Up

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    “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...

    We Imitate; We Break Up
  • 1980
    Out of Hand

    Out of Hand

    Out of Hand

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    “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...

    Out of Hand