Joan Jonas

Born: 1936-01-01

Joan Jonas is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art who is one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[1] Jonas' projects and experiments provided the foundation on which much video performance art would be based. Her influences also extended to conceptual art, theatre, performance art and other visual media. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada. From Wikipedia.


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Volcano Saga

as Woman
Released: 1989-01-01

This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic...

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Strong Medicine

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-01

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the...

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Vertical Roll

as Organic Honey
Released: 1972-01-01

Cast as an “electronic erotic seductress,” the multiple costumes and roles performed by Jonas...

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Regrouping

as Self
Released: 1976-12-08

In this experimental film, Borden explores the dynamics among the members of a woman’s group. As...

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Double Lunar Dogs

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-01

Based on Robert Heinlein’s 1941 story “Universe,” Double Lunar Dogs presents a vision of...

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Left Side, Right Side

as uncredited
Released: 1972-02-02

In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent...

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I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-01

Jonas intercuts scenes of the Nova Scotia countryside with images of a studio set-up reminiscent...

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