Joan Jonas Movies
- 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)
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2005
Mirror Imrprovisation
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This piece includes many iconographical elements that have evolved in Jonas’s practice since the early 1970s, including the mirror, the hoop...
- 1970
Lines in the Sand
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"Commissioned by Dokumenta XI in 2002, Jonas' multimedia performance piece Lines in the Sand takes up two works by the poet H.D. (Hilda...
- 1973
Two Women
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Two women kiss.
- 2006
My New Theater VI: Good Night Good Morning '06
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This film was made in the summer of 2006 in Jonas's Nova Scotia home. It reuses the format of a 1976 film in which the artist recorded herself...
- 2015
In the Trees
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2015. USA. Directed by Joan Jonas. Presented as a two-channel diptych: Green Timeline (3:41 min.); Mirror Timeline (3:48 min.). 7 min.
- 1974
Merlo
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Short movie by Joan Jonas.
- 1972
Left Side, Right Side
Left Side, Right Side01972HD
In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent properties of the medium to her investigations of the...
- 1974
Disturbances
Disturbances01974HD
Disturbances extends Jonas' investigation of mirrored surfaces and spaces, as she explores reflections of movement and images in water. The tape...
- 1974
Mirror Check
Mirror Check01974HD
In Mirror Check Jonas uses a small handheld mirror to inspect her naked body in front of an audience. Though her movements were visible to the...
- 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...
- 2004
The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
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Five-channel video installation which responds to German art historian Aby Warburg’s essay about his visit to the American Southwest.
- 1973
Glass Puzzle
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This complex and enigmatic work, which is performed by Jonas and Lois Lane, explores female gestures, poses, the body and narcissism. Mirroring each...