From The Broken Rule (1979/2010) to Blind Country (1989), Beckman’s films are frequently structured as absurd video-game scenarios filled with luminous images, dislocated sounds (lip-synching, eerie choral arrangements)...

"In the sense, the film section of the Whitney Biennial is a paradigm for the scene as a whole; a pair of challenging films by first-rate artists..."

"The staff of the Soho Weekly News is pleased to announce the Second Annual Soho Arts Awards. The editors invited several critics and artists to help select the awards candidates for distinguished work over the past year..."

"The idea of failure, of continually trying to keep up with a constantly shifting, internalized sense of ‘normalcy,’ unites the seemingly disparate projects of Beckman and Michael Smith..."