The work of British artist Lis Rhodes investigates and proposes a radical questioning of the cultural, social and political hierarchies within which we live and in which we are complicit - as citizens and as viewers. Her films and videos assume a dramatic range of forms, from hand-made abstraction, meditations on perception and gender to the essay film and expanded cinema. Astute and rigorously structured it is a rarely surveyed body of work. This screening will include her two important works Light Reading (1979) and A Cold Draft (1988). In addition to her work as an artist Lis Rhodes was a formative influence in the early London Filmmakers' Co-op. She was a founder member of Circles Women's Film and Video Distribution (1979) and continues to be actively engaged in its latter-day manifestation Cinenova.

4 May 2008

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