“ERICKA BECKMAN is one of the most accomplished of the younger American filmmakers. The five super-8 films she has released since 1977 can be located at the ‘perceptual’ edge of Poststructural Punk: they’re not an absolute rejection of the ’70s formalism. Beckman’s work has affinities to certain films of George Landow and the trickier sections of Robert Nelson and William Wiley’s The Great Blondino, but basically she’s an idiosyncratic original, with a full-blown style that’s completely her own…”
