Vertical Roll
1972-01-01 | 20 minutes
Plot Summary
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
Recommendations
-
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
-
The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter
-
Six Hours: Surviving Typhoon Yolanda
-
Mask the Kekkou: Reborn
-
Best of Video Track 77 & 78
-
My Dog Stupid
-
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
-
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
-
Scooby-Doo's A Nutcracker Scoob
-
New York Stories
-
The Devil, Probably
-
Squeak-squeak
-
Six Bridges to Cross
-
Quay
-
Battlefield 2025
-
The Other Side of Hope
-
Tell Me When
-
One Week Friends
-
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon