“Many of us have, at one time or another, been plagued by that lost memory, i.e. that image of a person, place or thing, long forgotten, buried, and it were, somewhere deep in the backs of our minds. Our attempts to search for that forgotten image sets us on a “journey,” past a cluttered array of images which can be said to race past our mind’s eye, as we move back to the desired point. Beckman, in Out of Hand, takes us on a cinematic journey of this excavation, or more appropriately, of this unravelling, and does so by literalizing many of the verbal terms often used in describing this mental process…”
