eated Figures represents a continuation of Michael Snow's project for the cinema, the exploration of the syntactical construction of filmic language through an exhaustive cataloguing of the possibilities inherent in any particular cinematic movement of device. The film is an exploration of the trucking shot, a movement in which the camera travels alongside a moving object in order to follow its action. The activities we perceive are as much the shots themselves as they are the items viewed; in fact, the longevity of the shots, the relatively sparse sound track and the subject chosen (a highway and its environs) contribute equally to this discrete cinematic experience. What one sees here are the elements of a genuine road movie, with a gentle and lyrical progression from concrete to sand to water to a beautiful row of mountain flowers.