Joan Jonas Filmes

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...

2015. USA. Directed by Joan Jonas. 4 min.

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

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...

Mirage was designed specifically for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives in New York's SoHo neighborhood, where Joan Jonas first performed...

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...

"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...

Five-channel video installation which responds to German art historian Aby Warburg’s essay about his visit to the American Southwest.

The video and sculptural installation Ice Drawing (2012) is one component of Jonas’s masterwork installation, Reanimation (2013). It features...

Experimental short by Joan Jonas

"Commissioned by Dokumenta XI in 2002, Jonas' multimedia performance piece Lines in the Sand takes up two works by the poet H.D. (Hilda...

Moving Off the Land celebrates the ocean and its creatures, biodiversity, and delicate ecology.

Jonas's performance piece, an homage to 18th century French outdoor theater, incorporates mythology as well as spontaneously occurring events into...

Frenetic silhouettes pass us by.

A Jamaican fisherman describes fishing practices.

Short movie by Joan Jonas.

This piece includes many iconographical elements that have evolved in Jonas’s practice since the early 1970s, including the mirror, the hoop...