"In Left Side Right Side, Jonas explores the ambiguities caused by her attempt to identify correctly the spatial orientation of images simultaneously played back by a monitor and reflected in a mirror. This is confusing because, contrary to what one might expect, the monitor image gives back a 'true' reading of the space while the mirror reverses it. Throughout the course of the tape, the image switches back and forth between the double image of monitor and mirror to the simple 'real' image of Jonas's face."

—David Ross, "Joan Jonas's Videotapes" in Joan Jonas: Scripts and Descriptions, 1968-1982, ed. Douglas Crimp (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983)
This title was in the original Castelli-Sonnabend video art collection. -from vdb.org

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VERTICAL ROLL, 1972
MIRROR PIECE I, 1969

DISTURBANCES, 1974
DOUBLE LUNAR DOGS, 1984
LEFT SIDE/RIGHT SIDE, 1972
UPSIDEDOWN AND BACKWARDS, 1980
READING DANTE, 2008