Artforum. May 07.

"Saul Levine has been one of the most underrated filmmakers in the American avant-garde cinema throughout his more than 40-year-long career," writes none other than P Adams Sitney, Anthology Film Archives co-founder and author of the landmark Visionary Film (1974). "A figure of the perennial Left, Levine has identified with and championed the small gauges as if they were marginalized citizens of the republic of cinema."

Also in the May issue of Artforum, Amy Taubin finds Zoo "achingly beautiful and rather sad but so limited in scope as to cause viewers to fall back on their preconceptions, however narrow or inchoate."

Barry Schwabsky on First Generation: Art and the Moving Image, 1963 - 1986: "For the past several years, Berta Sichel, director of the audiovisual department at the Reina Sofía, has been building a collection intended to illustrate the origins and early years of video art; this exhibition - comprising more than 40 installations and projections, along with 80 single-channel works accessible via computers placed within the exhibition space - was a presentation of what the museum described as the 'historic core' of this collection, supplemented by a small number of loans."

Jessica Morgan talks with Matthew Buckingham about The Spirit and the Letter, which "consists of a specially devised installation and video in which an actress in 18th-century dress reads from Mary Wollstonecraft's writings, principally fragments of her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)."

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