1980 | United States | Short

Upsidedown and Backwards

  • English - 30 mins
  • Director | Joan Jonas
  • Writer | Joan Jonas
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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“[This tape] gives a clear picture of the consistency of Jonas’s concerns. The performance was based upon the merging of two fairy tales — The Frog Prince told backward and The Boy Who Went Out To Learn Fear told forward. These two tales become intertwined into a single text whose transformations are effected through fragmentation, demonstrating a process “unhitched” from time, as free from the laws of physics as are the fairy-tale sources. “

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