vertical+roll

Vertical Roll, 1972 Joan Jonas "In this well-known early tape, Jonas manipulates the grammar of the camera to create the sense of a grossly disturbed physical space. The space functions as a metaphor for the unstable identity of the costumed and masked female figure roaming the screen, negotiating the rolling barrier of the screen’s bottom edge. '[Making] use of a jarring rhythmic technique to develop a sense of fragmentation,//Vertical Roll// uses a common television set malfunction of the same name to establish a constantly shifting stage for the actions that relate both to the nature of the image and to the artist’s projected psychological state.' ” - Video Data Bank
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Influential in the questioning of the media of the video; the alteration from "normal" playback allows the observer the opportunity to contemplate the medium itself, as though looking closely at the weave of a fabric rather than at the whole fabric alone.

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