FILM

“Beckman began making films in the mid-1970s using the then new technology of Super-8 sound film. Her first films were neither documentaries nor narratives, but rather idiosyncratic constructions that triumphed over the limitations of the narrow gauge format with their ingenious special effects. These remarkable early works have the vitality of primitive cartoons, and are similarly filled with comic violence and dreamlike condensation. (...) In the Super-8 We Imitate; We Break Up a set of life-sized marionette legs teach the filmmaker/protagonist how to dance and play a version of soccer, and then chase her all over the lot when she runs away with the ‘loot’.” (Jim Hoberman)