FILM

Light Reading
Lis Rhodes, 1978, UK, HD, 20'

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 others, Rhodes explores the power relationships present in both ‘the grammar of looking and the grammar of language’.