“In a 1983 issue of the Village Voice, J. Hoberman outlined the mayhem that occurred during the New York Film Festival’s screening of Ericka Beckman’s now-seminal short film You The Better (1983). The film was billed as a double feature with Jean-Luc Godard’s Passion (1982), and impatient audience members caused a clamor when forced to view Beckman’s film first. “The film was attacked by a sustained volley of hisses, whistles, and derisive clapping,” Hoberman recounts. “At the end [of the screening], Beckman was not only booed but actually pelted with programs.”
