Titles by Joan Jonas
- Big Market
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Disturbances
- Double Lunar Dogs
- Duet
- Glass Puzzle
- Good Night Good Morning
- He Saw Her Burning
- I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)
- Left Side Right Side
- Lines in the Sand
- Merlo
- Mirage
- Mirage 2
- Organic Honey's Vertical Roll
- Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy
- Waltz
- Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image
- Songdelay
- Three Returns/Barking
- Upsidedown and Backwards
- Vertical Roll
- Volcano Saga
- Wind
He Saw Her Burning
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 and a woman begin their respective tales: He saw a woman burst into flames on the street; she saw an American soldier go berserk and drive a tank into a crowd. Produced while Jonas was living in Berlin on an artist's fellowship, the disjunctive narratives are pervaded with a sense of cultural dislocation and alienation. The man and woman occupy separate narrative spaces as they tell their stories, which are intercut with a pastiche of word games, narrative reenactments, filmed sequences, isolated gestures and objects. Memory — elusive and ephemeral, personal and collective — is the catalyst for this complex work.
Director: Joan Jonas. Super-8 Camera: Cynthia Beatt. Music: The Residents, Vera and Gabor Body. With: Y Sa Lo, Shawn Lawton. Editors: Joan Jonas, Egon Bunne.
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