
Vertical Roll
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.
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- Status
- Released
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- Theatrical1 Jan 1972
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- When was Vertical Roll released?
- Vertical Roll was released on 1 January 1972.
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- Vertical Roll holds a 4.0/10 audience score from 1 votes.
- Who directed Vertical Roll?
- Vertical Roll (1972) was directed by Joan Jonas.
- How long is Vertical Roll?
- Vertical Roll runs for 20m.












