"This Tuesday the series continues with a program of four shorts including You the Better (1983). Erica Beckman’s punchy, accomplished little riff on the nature of competition matches its subject with a kinetic..."

With forty years of groundbreaking and captivating filmmaking to her name, it is only recently that Ericka Beckman has begun to emerge from the shadow of her better-known and mostly male contemporaries. Beckman has been a stand-out from the art world’s mainstream, ever since her early work of the 1980s and 1990s. It feels about time that the wider public should discover her idiosyncratic Super-8 and 16mm performative films, focusing on the broad topic of ‘game and play’.

Following her recent successful mid-career retrospective at the Kunsthalle Bern, a selection of her work will be on view at Le MAGASIN in Grenoble.

The television is always on, of course, with Dara Birnbaum’s Wonder Woman video running on one channel, Ericka Beckman’s mordant Super-8 childhood skits on another and Mr. Smith’s infantile dramas on a third.