Joan Jonas Movies
- 1976
I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)
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Jonas intercuts scenes of the Nova Scotia countryside with images of a studio set-up reminiscent of a di Chirico painting. The soundtrack includes...
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- 1970
Big Market
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1984 video art by Joan Jonas
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- 1974
Merlo
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Short movie by Joan Jonas.
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- 1974
Disturbances
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Disturbances extends Jonas' investigation of mirrored surfaces and spaces, as she explores reflections of movement and images in water. The tape...
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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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- 2019
Jamaican Fisherman
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A Jamaican fisherman describes fishing practices.
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- 1983
He Saw Her Burning
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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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- 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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- 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...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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...
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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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- 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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- 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...
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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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- 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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