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Light Music (S)

Original title: Light Music
Year: 1975
Running time: 25 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Lis Rhodes
Screenwriter: Lis Rhodes
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Lis Rhodes (B&W)
Genre: Documentary | Short Film. Experimental Cinema
Synopsis: Rhodes plays with our preconception of film by presenting the soundtrack as a series of horizontal and vertical lines that were drawn with pen and ink on the optical edge of the filmstrip. These are projected onto two opposite facing screens in a hazy room. As the films roll, they appear as an ‘optical soundtrack’. What the viewer hears, on the other hand, is the audible equivalent of the alternating images on the screens. The space between the two screens turns the beams into airy sculptural forms consisting of light, shadow and smoke, which encourages the viewer to move around the room. This in turns destroys conventional film watching codes and turns the film into a collective practice where the audience is expected to intervene into the work and thus, become the performer.

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Light Music (S)

1975

Lis Rhodes