Joan Jonas Movies
- 1981
Strong Medicine
Strong Medicine5.61981HD
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1976
Regrouping
Regrouping4.71976HD
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...
- 1976
I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)
I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)101976HD
Jonas intercuts scenes of the Nova Scotia countryside with images of a studio set-up reminiscent of a di Chirico painting. The soundtrack includes...
- 1973
Glass Puzzle
Glass Puzzle61973HD
This complex and enigmatic work, which is performed by Jonas and Lois Lane, explores female gestures, poses, the body and narcissism. Mirroring each...
- 1972
Vertical Roll
Vertical Roll41972HD
Cast as an “electronic erotic seductress,” the multiple costumes and roles performed by Jonas critically examine the ever-changing, but...
- 2019
Jamaican Fisherman
Jamaican Fisherman02019HD
A Jamaican fisherman describes fishing practices.
- 2018
Moving Off the Land
Moving Off the Land02018HD
Moving Off the Land celebrates the ocean and its creatures, biodiversity, and delicate ecology.
- 2015
They Come to Us without a Word [“Wind Sequence” excerpt]
They Come to Us without a Word [“Wind Sequence” excerpt]02015HD
2015. USA. Directed by Joan Jonas. 4 min.
- 2015
In the Trees
In the Trees02015HD
2015. USA. Directed by Joan Jonas. Presented as a two-channel diptych: Green Timeline (3:41 min.); Mirror Timeline (3:48 min.). 7 min.
- 2007
Shadows/Como
Shadows/Como02007HD
Frenetic silhouettes pass us by.
- 1975
Keep Busy
Keep Busy01975HD
The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...
- 1984
Double Lunar Dogs
Double Lunar Dogs01984HD
Based on Robert Heinlein’s 1941 story “Universe,” Double Lunar Dogs presents a vision of post-apocalyptic survival aboard a...
- 1989
Volcano Saga
Volcano Saga01989HD
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...
- 2003
Waltz
Waltz02003HD
Jonas's performance piece, an homage to 18th century French outdoor theater, incorporates mythology as well as spontaneously occurring events into...
- 1970
Waltz
Waltz01970HD
from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003)
- 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...
- 1973
Two Women
Two Women01973HD
Two women kiss.
- 1973
Barking
Barking01973HD
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...