Een heropvoering van het allereerste filmprogramma van Circles, Her Image Fades as Her Voice Rises (1982), met films geselecteerd door Lis Rhodes en Felicity Sparrow.

Circles — opgericht in 1979 door een kleine groep filmmakers met onder andere Felicity Sparrow, Lis Rhodes and Annabel Nicolson — was de eerste distributeur in Groot-Britannië van films en videos van vrouwelijke kunstenaars. Er werd aanvankelijk gewerkt vanuit Felicity Sparrow’s apartement in Highgate. Hun programma bevatte women only screenings en groepsdiscussies in Four Corners Film Workshops in Bethnal Green. In 1991 vloeiden Circles en Cinema of Woman samen om de nieuwe organisatie Cinenova te vormen. Her Image Fades as Her Voice Rises was het eerste van verschillende baanbrekende rondreizende filmprogramma’s in het begin van de jaren 1980 die voortkwamen uit de culturele en politieke debatten van de jaren 1970.

“Sitting with her at the table, talking, her hands poised over the typewriter. The words in our minds turning between description and analysis — to write the image or to write about the image. This will be a subjective gathering of threads of meaning, drawing attention to the spaces between four films that are dense with connections and difference. Seen thus, the program becomes a fiction in itself; a looking at — a listening to — the relationships between the filmmakers — their stories — avoiding false isolation, the separations determined by history as it is written — as it has been read — to mean meanings other than HERS. We shall try to make explicit the links and fractures between four films made by four women whose lives and work belong to different times and different places — different languages even — but whose voices are placed within similar constraints. We all experience these constraints but most women are allowed no time or space to reflect upon them.” — Lis Rhodes and Felicity Sparrow

In the presence of Charlotte Procter