Joan Jonas Movies

  • 2003
    Waltz

    Waltz

    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...

    Waltz
  • 1970
    Waltz

    Waltz

    Waltz

    01970HD

    from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003)

    Waltz
  • 1973
    Barking

    Barking

    Barking

    01973HD

    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...

    Barking
  • 1980
    Upsidedown and Backwards

    Upsidedown and Backwards

    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...

    Upsidedown and Backwards
  • 1973
    Songdelay

    Songdelay

    Songdelay

    01973HD

    Wind and Songdelay are two of Joan Jonas’s early performances filmed in the open air, in either natural or industrial environments. Fourteen...

    Songdelay
  • 2005
    Mirror Imrprovisation

    Mirror Imrprovisation

    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...

    Mirror Imrprovisation
  • 1970
    Lines in the Sand

    Lines in the Sand

    Lines in the Sand

    01970HD

    "Commissioned by Dokumenta XI in 2002, Jonas' multimedia performance piece Lines in the Sand takes up two works by the poet H.D. (Hilda...

    Lines in the Sand
  • 1973
    Two Women

    Two Women

    Two Women

    01973HD

    Two women kiss.

    Two Women
  • 2006
    My New Theater VI: Good Night Good Morning '06

    My New Theater VI: Good Night Good Morning '06

    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...

    My New Theater VI: Good Night Good Morning '06
  • 2015
    In the Trees

    In the Trees

    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.

    In the Trees
  • 1974
    Merlo

    Merlo

    Merlo

    01974HD

    Short movie by Joan Jonas.

    Merlo
  • 1972
    Left Side, Right Side

    Left Side, Right Side

    Left Side, Right Side

    01972HD

    In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent properties of the medium to her investigations of the...

    Left Side, Right Side
  • 1974
    Disturbances

    Disturbances

    Disturbances

    01974HD

    Disturbances extends Jonas' investigation of mirrored surfaces and spaces, as she explores reflections of movement and images in water. The tape...

    Disturbances
  • 1974
    Mirror Check

    Mirror Check

    Mirror Check

    01974HD

    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...

    Mirror Check
  • 1976
    Mirage

    Mirage

    Mirage

    01976HD

    Mirage was designed specifically for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives in New York's SoHo neighborhood, where Joan Jonas first performed...

    Mirage
  • 2004
    The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things

    The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things

    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.

    The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
  • 1973
    Glass Puzzle

    Glass Puzzle

    Glass Puzzle

    61973HD

    This complex and enigmatic work, which is performed by Jonas and Lois Lane, explores female gestures, poses, the body and narcissism. Mirroring each...

    Glass Puzzle