Joan Jonas Movies
- 1973
Two Women
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Two women kiss.
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- 1970
Big Market
Big Market01970HD
1984 video art by Joan Jonas
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- 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...
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- 1970
May Windows
May Windows01970HD
"Shot vertically and intended to be shown on a video monitor turned on its side, the video May Windows (1976) is a component of the Mirage...
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- 1974
Merlo
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Short movie by Joan Jonas.
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 1970
Waltz
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from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003)
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- 1983
He Saw Her Burning
He Saw Her Burning01983HD
He Saw Her Burning, which is based on a 1983 performance, is a provocative narrative collage, a surreal juxtaposition of two narrated texts. A man...
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- 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...
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- 1972
Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy
Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy01972HD
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...
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- 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...
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- 2018
Moving Off the Land
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Moving Off the Land celebrates the ocean and its creatures, biodiversity, and delicate ecology.
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- 2015
They Come to Us without a Word [“Wind Sequence” excerpt]
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2015. USA. Directed by Joan Jonas. 4 min.
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- 1976
Good Night Good Morning
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In the film, Jonas uses video as a diaristic construct to chart the passing of personal time through quotidian ritual. Over three different periods...
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 1970
Lines in the Sand
Lines in the Sand01970HD
"Commissioned by Dokumenta XI in 2002, Jonas' multimedia performance piece Lines in the Sand takes up two works by the poet H.D. (Hilda...
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- 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.
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