Joan Jonas Movies
- 1974
Mirror Check
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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...
- 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.
- 1976
Good Night Good Morning
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Experimental short by Joan Jonas
- 1973
Two Women
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Two women kiss.
- 2007
Shadows/Como
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Frenetic silhouettes pass us by.
- 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...