LIS RHODES, LIGHT READING, 1978
20 mins, B&W, I Sound: Optical, Ratio: 4:3,16mm film
“Lis Rhodes is a filmmaker and founding member of the women’s film and video distribution company Circles, established in 1979. Many of her films employ a primarily abstract language. Rhodes’s film, Light Reading, begins in darkness. A woman’s voice reads extracts of text by the American Modernist writer Gertrude Stein. When the voice stops, a loose narrative takes shape from a series of collaged photographs, including one of a bloodstained bed. In this film, as in her others, Rhodes explores the power relationships present in both ‘the grammar of looking and the grammar of language” - Arts Council Collection