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Pacifist Masochist by Gary V (formerly Prism Tats) from the album Prism Tats - Directed by Eric Becker

Dear Friends, Please join us at 8:00 pm on Friday 7/26 at Molasses Books in Bushwick for our summertime installment of Us&Them. This time around, we're excited to be hosting Gregory Pardlo reading translations of Niels Lyngsø (Denmark), Kaitlin Rees reading translations of Nhã Thuyên (Vietnam), Eric Becker reading translations of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida (Angola), and Esther Kim reading translations of Choi Eunyoung (South Korea). Please help spread the word by sharing our flyer or our facebook event page.

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Eric Becker by John Keatley

Eric Becker, winner of a 2014 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, translates “Lamentations of a Coconut Tree” from Selected Stories by Mia Couto, one of the greatest Mozambican prose writers of his generation. "It all began when, seated along Inhambane’s seaside drive, my friend Suleimane Inbraímo split the shell of a coconut. From inside the fruit didn’t gush the usual sweet water, but blood. Exactruly: blood, certified and unmistakable blood. But that wasn’t the only astonishment of the matter. From the fruit sprouted a human voice, in cries and lamentations. Suleimane took no half-dismeasures: his hands, agape, dropped the coconut and blotches of red splattered about. He stood there, confwoozy, buffuzzled, spent. The shock caused his soul to dissipate in low tide." Continue Reading You can also read Becker’s essay on translating Couto here.

Fifty years ago, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Mt. Everest. Directed by Eric Becker. http://ift.tt/PFz2oo. This film was made possible by support from Seattle University. Archival footage courtesy Eddie Bauer and The Whittaker Family. // A Life Well Lived | Jim Whittaker & 50 Years of Everest by eric becker

Seattle filmmaker Eric Becker, doing epic things with a RED Epic in this portrait of photographer Aaron Huey's work among the Oglala Sioux of South Dakota. Soaring visuals and solid storytelling. Check out the rest of his commercial, short documentary and profile work on Vimeo - the guy just can't make a bad film.  These are exactly the kinds of creative, pioneering filmmakers who continue to inspire us and excite us about the future of the documentary format, even as we gear up to embark on the first leg of our own project.

HONOR THE TREATIES - a short film that captures the journey of photographer Aaron Huey as he explores and reveals the struggles of the Native Lakota people of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Great photography and storytelling that sheds light on the current conditions that have culminated after centuries of persecution. Great work in collaboration through the artistic outlets of Shepard Fairey, Ernesto Yerena, Eric Becker, and Aaron Huey.