Joan Jonas Movies
- 1973
Barking
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Barking is infused with a sense of mystery, the anticipation that something is about to happen. A car is parked outside a house in a rural Nova...
- 1976
Good Night Good Morning
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Experimental short by Joan Jonas
- 1968
Wind
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Cutting between snowy fields and a raw seashore, Jonas focuses on a group of performers moving through a stark, windswept landscape. The 16mm film...
- 1973
Songdelay
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Wind and Songdelay are two of Joan Jonas’s early performances filmed in the open air, in either natural or industrial environments. Fourteen...
- 1972
Duet
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In this seminal exploration of the phenomenology of video as a mirror and as "reality," Jonas, face-to-face with her own recorded image, performs a...
- 1974
Merlo
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Short movie by Joan Jonas.
- 2003
Waltz
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Jonas's performance piece, an homage to 18th century French outdoor theater, incorporates mythology as well as spontaneously occurring events into...
- 1970
Waltz
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from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003)
- 1992
Revolted by the Thought of Known Places...Sweeney Astray
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1992/1994. USA. Directed by Joan Jonas. Presented as a two-channel diptych: Berlin Wall (9:39 min.); Berlin Road (9:35 min.). 19 min.
- 1976
Mirage
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Mirage was designed specifically for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives in New York's SoHo neighborhood, where Joan Jonas first performed...
- 1980
Upsidedown and Backwards
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In Upsidedown and Backwards, two fairy tales — The Frog Prince and The Boy Who Went Out to Learn Fear — are told simultaneously, one...
- 1972
Left Side, Right Side
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In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent properties of the medium to her investigations of the...
- 1970
Ice Drawing
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The video and sculptural installation Ice Drawing (2012) is one component of Jonas’s masterwork installation, Reanimation (2013). It features...
- 1972
Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy
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Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy is based on Jonas' 1972 performance of the same name, the first in which she used video. In an enigmatic ritual of...