Movie Description
Vertical Roll
(1972)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Joan Jonas
- Cast : Joan Jonas
Cast
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Facts
Original TitleVertical Roll
Status Released
Release Information
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1972-01-01
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 00h 20m