"If it is ever believable to group auteur initiatives into those who exhume the previous, those who champion the current, and those who catapult us into the longer term, thenThe Batista Syndrome — Steve Fagin’s retro-futuristic video miniseries — leaps and lands firmly on some refined mixture of all three, remaining there in a balancing act."

"The mission traverses a number of theatrical genres, musical, vaudeville, verité, drama, dream, and soliloquy."

"...dreamy ballet dancers pliéing to a black-and-white video of a 1958 Russian rendition of Giselle; an anthropomorphic, retro-futuristic jukebox — a sort of psychopomp that may entry the world of the useless in alternate for a chocolate coin..."

--The Art and Artifice of Remembering in Steve Fagin’s“The Batista Syndrome”, Susannah Rodríguez Drissi
LARB

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