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1981
Strong Medicine
Strong Medicine5.6 1981 HD
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...
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Cast: Kate Manheim
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1975
Keep Busy
Keep Busy0 1975 HD
The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...
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Cast: Joanne Akolitis
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1972
Vertical Roll
Vertical Roll4 1972 HD
Cast as an “electronic erotic seductress,” the multiple costumes and roles performed by Jonas critically examine the ever-changing, but...
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Cast: Joan Jonas
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1989
Volcano Saga
Volcano Saga0 1989 HD
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman...
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Cast: Tilda Swinton
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1984
Double Lunar Dogs
Double Lunar Dogs0 1984 HD
Based on Robert Heinlein’s 1941 story “Universe,” Double Lunar Dogs presents a vision of post-apocalyptic survival aboard a...
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Cast: Joan Jonas
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1976
Regrouping
Regrouping4.7 1976 HD
In this experimental film, Borden explores the dynamics among the members of a woman’s group. As she interviews people who know them, such as...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Kathryn Bigelow
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1972
Left Side, Right Side
Left Side, Right Side0 1972 HD
In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent properties of the medium to her investigations of the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Joan Jonas
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1976
I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)
I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)10 1976 HD
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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1976
Good Night Good Morning
Good Night Good Morning0 1976 HD
Experimental short by Joan Jonas
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1974
Merlo
Merlo0 1974 HD
Short movie by Joan Jonas.
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1972
Vertical Roll
Vertical Roll4 1972 HD
Cast as an “electronic erotic seductress,” the multiple costumes and roles performed by Jonas critically examine the ever-changing, but...
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Cast: Joan Jonas
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2004
The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things0 2004 HD
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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1989
Volcano Saga
Volcano Saga0 1989 HD
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman...
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Cast: Tilda Swinton
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1984
Double Lunar Dogs
Double Lunar Dogs0 1984 HD
Based on Robert Heinlein’s 1941 story “Universe,” Double Lunar Dogs presents a vision of post-apocalyptic survival aboard a...
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Cast: Joan Jonas
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1976
Mirage
Mirage0 1976 HD
Mirage was designed specifically for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives in New York's SoHo neighborhood, where Joan Jonas first performed...
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1980
Upsidedown and Backwards
Upsidedown and Backwards0 1980 HD
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
They Come to Us without a Word [“Wind Sequence” excerpt]
They Come to Us without a Word [“Wind Sequence” excerpt]0 2015 HD
2015. USA. Directed by Joan Jonas. 4 min.
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2015
In the Trees
In the Trees0 2015 HD
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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1992
Revolted by the Thought of Known Places...Sweeney Astray
Revolted by the Thought of Known Places...Sweeney Astray0 1992 HD
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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1968
Wind
Wind0 1968 HD
Cutting between snowy fields and a raw seashore, Jonas focuses on a group of performers moving through a stark, windswept landscape. The 16mm film...
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1974
Disturbances
Disturbances0 1974 HD
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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2006
My New Theater VI: Good Night Good Morning '06
My New Theater VI: Good Night Good Morning '060 2006 HD
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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2019
Jamaican Fisherman
Jamaican Fisherman0 2019 HD
A Jamaican fisherman describes fishing practices.
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1974
Mirror Check
Mirror Check0 1974 HD
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...
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1973
Barking
Barking0 1973 HD
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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2007
Shadows/Como
Shadows/Como0 2007 HD
Frenetic silhouettes pass us by.
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1973
Two Women
Two Women0 1973 HD
Two women kiss.
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Cast: Christine Kozlov
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1972
Duet
Duet0 1972 HD
In this seminal exploration of the phenomenology of video as a mirror and as "reality," Jonas, face-to-face with her own recorded image, performs a...
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1972
Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy
Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy0 1972 HD
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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1973
Glass Puzzle
Glass Puzzle6 1973 HD
This complex and enigmatic work, which is performed by Jonas and Lois Lane, explores female gestures, poses, the body and narcissism. Mirroring each...
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1970
Ice Drawing
Ice Drawing0 1970 HD
The video and sculptural installation Ice Drawing (2012) is one component of Jonas’s masterwork installation, Reanimation (2013). It features...
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1983
He Saw Her Burning
He Saw Her Burning0 1983 HD
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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Cast: Y Sa Lo
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1971
Paul Revere
Paul Revere0 1971 HD
The film is an adaptation from two sources: Kinesics and Context by Ray L. Birdwhistell, and Choreomania, a performance by Joan Jonas
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2005
Mirror Imrprovisation
Mirror Imrprovisation0 2005 HD
This piece includes many iconographical elements that have evolved in Jonas’s practice since the early 1970s, including the mirror, the hoop...
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1972
Left Side, Right Side
Left Side, Right Side0 1972 HD
In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent properties of the medium to her investigations of the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Joan Jonas
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1973
Songdelay
Songdelay0 1973 HD
Wind and Songdelay are two of Joan Jonas’s early performances filmed in the open air, in either natural or industrial environments. Fourteen...
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1976
I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)
I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)10 1976 HD
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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Cast: Joan Jonas
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1970
Waltz
Waltz0 1970 HD
from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003)
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2003
Waltz
Waltz0 2003 HD
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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