Rhodes, Lis
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’.
- Artwork Details: running time: 20 minutes
- Edition: 2 of 5
- Material description: 16 mm film / HD video
- Credit line: Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist.
- Theme:
- Medium: Film and Audio Visual
- Accession number: ACC21/2014