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Salvation!: Have You Said Your Prayers Today?.Across five decades, artist and filmmaker Beth B has produced a dazzlingly diverse body of work, spanning cinema, television, installation art, and performance. She made her name as a pioneer of No Wave, a movement that emerged during a legendary period of subcultural creativity in New York. In the late 1970s, when B graduated from the School of Visual Arts, musicians, artists, and filmmakers were finding their place in the bankrupt city. In the vacant lots and crumbling apartments of downtown Manhattan, an outsider community emerged, a loosely affiliated group of misfits connected by their overlapping social circles, fierce creativity, and raw, anti-everything attitude. This proximity fostered an explosion of collaborative artmaking, within which B played a central role. Alongside her then partner, Scott B, she made a series of Super 8 and 16mm experiments, which they called “B Movies,” that exemplified what...