Ericka Beckman dramatizes America as a slot machine cum TV sports show with lots of sing-song. This 35-minute movie sparked a riot at the 1983 New York Film Festival.

"Los Angeles, April 28 – Los Angeles Filmforum is proud to present two screenings with the genre-defying, highly original filmmaker Ericka Beckman. Described as a key figure of the Pictures Generation..."

Ericka Beckman’s 1983 film You the Better, the central work in her solo show at Mary Boone, is in part a playfully literal take on the modernist trope of the game of chance, using the structure of the game to look at the social codes that bind us to the world.