A review of a recent video exhibition as part of a festival on language and art. 21 tapes were screened in what the author notes was a "highly selective and rather conservative overview"(16) of language in video art. She decribes video as having a unique potential to reduce language to its barest essentials and the low-tech equipment that permitted postmodern experimentation with language. The exhibit, by contrast, was limited to the old guard of solipsistic video art and attempted to precisely categorize what is still an expanding and fluid manifestation of video.