“Ericka Beckman’s new 16mm color film Cinderella is deceptively simple. The title, of course, refers to the ancient fairy tale and the film itself retells or, more accurately, reformulates that story. But as the opening treatment implies with its jerking pan across a papier-mâche furnace to the blocky letters of the title, the film is self-conscious in its construction, foregrounding its artificiality rather than masking it…”
