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Vertical Roll (1972)
Directed by Joan Jonas
Documentary · 20m
Cast as an “electronic erotic seductress,” the multiple costumes and roles performed by Jonas critically examine the ever-changing, but consistently unequal roles of women. The camera gazes at Jonas, implicating the viewer in the work and further, with her body. Her intentional de-synchronization of the monitor's receiving and transmitting frequencies results in the on-screen image's repeated vertical descent. Creating a sense of fragmentation, the vertical roll relentlessly pounds at the images of the artist as she moves through a series of performed identities. Characterized a "disjunctive self portrait" by the Electronic Arts Intermix, the image content of the work is strongly mediated by the mirror-like function of the camera, scrutinized by the lens and subjected to violence by the vertical roll.
Cast
Joan Jonas
Crew
- Director
- Joan Jonas
Details
- Release date
- 1972-01-01
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America