brookehalpin — settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:brookehalpin @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:10:10 +0200 You the Better (Ericka Beckman, 1983) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/you-the-better-1983 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" You the Better (Ericka Beckman, 1983)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" VE-Day/div div class="img" You the Better (1983)/div div class="caption" One of the players, an handsome young white man, celebrates a score. He wears blue pants with a yellow string, a blue shirt with a blue T-shirt underneath. On his head a red and white hat. The bill hides part of his face. He's got his right arm raised in victory. Behind him other players in identical kits. On the back of shirts a a symbol that looks like a surprised smiley, or a bowling ball./div div class="txt" They say, the house always wins. In You the Better, the House is an unseen character. The other character – a constantly changing team of athletes wearing blue uniforms and caps and coached by artist Ashley Bickerton – play a baffling hybrid of craps, dodgeball, and roulette while arcade game noises and Brooke Halpin's catchy chants accompany the players. While You the Better suggests repetitiveness, a theme of winning, losing, and competitiveness reveals itself.\ "HANDS UP PUT YOUR HANDS UP GIMME MORE GIMME GIMME MORE BETTER GIMME MORE" ### – recurring chant\ You the Better is part of Beckman's The Super-8 Trilogy, a multimedia art project that explores play in Western society./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #VEDay #ErickaBeckman #BrookeHalpin #AshleyBickerton #ShortFilm #music #sports #fantasy #PerformanceArt #ArtFilm #animation #USA #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

You the Better (Ericka Beckman, 1983)

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8

VE-Day

You the Better (1983)

One of the players, an handsome young white man, celebrates a score. He wears blue pants with a yellow string, a blue shirt with a blue T-shirt underneath. On his head a red and white hat. The bill hides part of his face. He's got his right arm raised in victory. Behind him other players in identical kits. On the back of shirts a a symbol that looks like a surprised smiley, or a bowling ball.

They say, the house always wins. In You the Better, the House is an unseen character. The other character – a constantly changing team of athletes wearing blue uniforms and caps and coached by artist Ashley Bickerton – play a baffling hybrid of craps, dodgeball, and roulette while arcade game noises and Brooke Halpin's catchy chants accompany the players. While You the Better suggests repetitiveness, a theme of winning, losing, and competitiveness reveals itself.

“HANDS UP PUT YOUR HANDS UP GIMME MORE GIMME GIMME MORE BETTER GIMME MORE”

– recurring chant

You the Better is part of Beckman's The Super-8 Trilogy, a multimedia art project that explores play in Western society.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #VEDay #ErickaBeckman #BrookeHalpin #AshleyBickerton #ShortFilm #music #sports #fantasy #PerformanceArt #ArtFilm #animation #USA #1980s ★★★★☆

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