Abstract
This chapter explores how experimental filmmaker Lis Rhodes subverts the hegemonic relationship between sound and image across her body of moving image work in order to highlight and address inequitable power structures and the absence of the female voice in music and society. This is achieved on a material level by translating the optical soundtrack into visual presentations in her direct animation Dresden Dynamo (1971-2) and within an expanded, performative context in her audiovisual composition Light Music (1975). Further to this, Rhodes’ later films, Light Reading (1978) and A Cold Draft (1988), continue to rebalance the audiovisual relationship by giving countenance to the female voice, acousmatised from the images presented on screen.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Music and Sound of Experimental Film |
| Editors | Holly Rodgers, Jeremy Barham |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 205-218 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780190469900 |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Sept 2017 |
Keywords
- Lis Rhodes
- LMFC
- expanded cinema
- optical sound
- experimental film
- structural/material film
- direct animation
- the female voice
- Light Music
- Dresden Dynamo