Strong Medicine
1981
star 6.3
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around he...
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Joan Jonas
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.
Filmography
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Volcano Saga
1989
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, f...
Vertical Roll
1972
star 4.0
Cast as an “electronic erotic seductress,” the multiple costumes and roles performed by Jonas critically examin...
Keep Busy
1975
star 8.0
The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into non...
I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)
1976
star 10.0
Jonas intercuts scenes of the Nova Scotia countryside with images of a studio set-up reminiscent of a di Chiric...
Regrouping
1976
star 4.6
In this experimental film, Borden explores the dynamics among the members of a woman’s group. As she interviews...
Lines in the Sand
"Commissioned by Dokumenta XI in 2002, Jonas' multimedia performance piece Lines in the Sand takes up two works...
Double Lunar Dogs
1984
Based on Robert Heinlein’s 1941 story “Universe,” Double Lunar Dogs presents a vision of post-apocalyptic survi...
Left Side, Right Side
1972
In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent properties of t...
Moving Off the Land
2018
Moving Off the Land celebrates the ocean and its creatures, biodiversity, and delicate ecology.