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, 1988, 30 minutes
Colour, Sound (Optical), 16mm ,Video
''A Cold Draft shows the surveillance of a woman by overseers who have judged her to be mad. What is most provocative about this film is that is proposes multiple credible points of view even as the woman is being certified insane by the 'Censors'. We voyage into the skull of a woman and peer out to a monumentally static cold waste with planetary slow motion. It is a bunker-eye view.'--Sandra Lahire, Undercut
''A Cold Draft' takes the acceptance of repression and the danger of resistance as its central themes. Using metaphors Rhodes illustrates our coherence to a sociological 'one-way' system in which the majority work to fuel the profits of an obliquely sinister ruling body, or face exclusion. Drawn images and urban landscapes dissolve into each other to form a shifting, disorientating visual reference. 'It is dangerous to step out of line and lethal not to'.'--BFI
A Cold Draft in the LUX Shop /
Afterimages 3: Lis Rhodes Volume 1
Lis Rhodes
LUX, London
£21.00