Movies Like LIGHT READING

Lis Rhodes, UK, 1979, 20 minutes B&W, Sound (Optical), 16mm 'The film begins in darkness as a woman's voice is heard over a black screen. The voice is questioning, searching. She will act. But how? Act against what? The bloodstained bed suggests a crime. . . could it be his blood? Could it be her blood ? The voice searches for clues. . . . The clues suggest it is language that has trapped her, meanings that have excluded her and a past constructed to control her. Light Reading ends with no single solution. But there is a beginning. Of that she is positive. She will not be looked at but listened to. . . "--‘Her Image Fades as Her Voice Rises’, Felicity Sparrow, in ‘Films for Women’, Charlotte Brunsden, Ed., publ. British Film Institute, 1986