“LIKE A BOOMERANG hurled across three-plus decades and carrying today’s viewer back with it to that fervent, hard-edged but oddly innocent downtown moment when the free-for-all 1970s (free because no one had or was willing to admit to having money) gave way to the more practical and materialist ’80s, Ericka Beckman’s Super 8 Piaget Trilogy (1978–81) arrives on the Anthology Film Archives screen. Its restoration in 16mm was made possible by Anthology’s experimental film preservation project, which has recently focused on work from this period…”
