Vdrome
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Ericka Beckman
“Cinderella”

16mm, color, sound, 28 minutes

Holidays Special

Year: 1986

This winter is hot and it will keep getting hotter. 
Cinderella keeps bouncing back to the hearth.
(at least it doesn’t run on fossil fuel)
May all carriages become forever pumpkins.
(cars and planes are so démodé)
May all prince charmings turn into frogs.
(the world really needs more amphibians)
May 2019 be a merrier, greener, colder year.  
 
— With Erika Beckman’s Cinderella, Vdrome wishes you a happy winter break and looks forward to seeing you again in 2019. 

“CINDERELLA is a musical treatment of the fairy tale. I have broken apart the story and set it as a mechanical game with a series of repetitions where CINDERELLA is projected back and forth like a ping-pong ball between the hearth and the castle. She never succeeds in satisfying the requirements of the ‘Cinderella Game’. The film was shot MOS, the dialogue is lip-synched, and along with the out-front score and effects track magnifies the film’s sense of alienation.” — E.B. 1984

Vdrome

Credits

Ericka Beckman, Cinderella

16mm, color, sound, 28 minutes, 1986

 

Produced, directed, shot and edited by Ericka Beckman
Starring Gigi Kalweit and Mike Kelley
Sound track composed by Brooke Halpin
Vocals by Katy Cavanaugh
Produced with funds from The Jerome Foundation and The New York State Council on the Arts

Ericka Beckman
“Cinderella”

Holidays Special

16mm, color, sound, 28 minutes

Year: 1986

This winter is hot and it will keep getting hotter. 
Cinderella keeps bouncing back to the hearth.
(at least it doesn’t run on fossil fuel)
May all carriages become forever pumpkins.
(cars and planes are so démodé)
May all prince charmings turn into frogs.
(the world really needs more amphibians)
May 2019 be a merrier, greener, colder year.  
 
— With Erika Beckman’s Cinderella, Vdrome wishes you a happy winter break and looks forward to seeing you again in 2019. 

“CINDERELLA is a musical treatment of the fairy tale. I have broken apart the story and set it as a mechanical game with a series of repetitions where CINDERELLA is projected back and forth like a ping-pong ball between the hearth and the castle. She never succeeds in satisfying the requirements of the ‘Cinderella Game’. The film was shot MOS, the dialogue is lip-synched, and along with the out-front score and effects track magnifies the film’s sense of alienation.” — E.B. 1984

Vdrome

Credits

Ericka Beckman, Cinderella

16mm, color, sound, 28 minutes, 1986

 

Produced, directed, shot and edited by Ericka Beckman
Starring Gigi Kalweit and Mike Kelley
Sound track composed by Brooke Halpin
Vocals by Katy Cavanaugh
Produced with funds from The Jerome Foundation and The New York State Council on the Arts