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Joan Jonas

Directing · Born 1936-01-01 · New York, New York, U.S.A.

Biography

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.

Known for

Filmography

2019Jamaican FishermanDirector
2018Moving Off the LandSelf
2015In the TreesDirector
2015They Come to Us without a Word [“Wind Sequence” excerpt]Director
2007Shadows/ComoDirector
2006My New Theater VI: Good Night Good Morning '06Director
2005Mirror ImrprovisationDirector
2004The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of ThingsDirector
2003WaltzDirector
1992Revolted by the Thought of Known Places...Sweeney AstrayDirector
1989Volcano SagaWoman
1988Brooklyn BridgeDirector
1984Double Lunar Dogs
1983He Saw Her BurningDirector
1981Strong Medicine
1980Upsidedown and BackwardsDirector
1976RegroupingSelf
1976I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)
1976Good Night Good MorningDirector
1976MirageDirector
1975Keep Busy
1974Mirror CheckDirector
1974MerloDirector
1974DisturbancesDirector
1973SongdelayDirector
1973Glass PuzzleDirector
1973BarkingDirector
1973Two WomenDirector
1972Organic Honey's Visual TelepathyDirector
1972DuetDirector
1972Left Side, Right Side
1972Vertical RollOrganic Honey
1971Paul RevereDirector
1968WindDirector
—Lines in the Sand
—Ice DrawingDirector
—WaltzDirector
—May WindowsDirector
—Big MarketDirector

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