New York filmmaker Ericka Beckman works in Super-8 and, most recently, in 16mm. Village Voice critic Jim Hoberman writes, “Like vintage cartoons, Beckman's films are filled with nervous activity and comic violence, sexual imagery and syncopated energy, perceptual game playing and ingenious homemade special effects.... Beckman's narratives are fraught with enigma but she has a recurring core of thematic preoccupations--competition, cognition, role-playing, organization of ground rules, ‘the coordination of the self in the physical world'--which have characterized her work for the past half-dozen years.”

In You the Better, a mysterious gambling game is played by six uniformed young players against a “house” that is hidden and all-powerful.