by Michael Snow (1988, 40 mins, Color, 16mm): "In Seated Figures, his first movie in over five years, Michael Snow again explores the ground zero of motion pictures-this time literally. Most simply described, the film is a 40-minute consideration of a landscape from the perspective of an exhaust pipe. The artist appears to have bolted his camera, lens down, to a metal arm extending off the back of a truck, then driven over asphalt and dirt roads, out to the beach, along a riverbed, and through a field of daisies... For all his conceptual sophistication, Snow subscribes to a casual, all-encompassing Cage aesthetic. He's deceptively artless, a master of the visual deadpan... The images are distanced-accompanied by the muffled noises of an audience watching a movie. Hence the mysteriously inert title. Seated Figures is about its audience. Not only are we sent flying face down over the earth, but Snow reverses the oldest concept in image-making-he juxtaposes our seated, static figures against a constantly moving ground." J. Hoberman, Village Voice.