Upsidedown and Backwards
1980, English. Directed by Joan Jonas.
In Upsidedown and Backwards, two fairy tales — The Frog Prince and The Boy Who Went Out to Learn Fear — are told simultaneously, one backwards and one forwards, each interrupting the other. Jonas' ironic use of visual symbolism further inverts the structure and content of the fragmented fairy tale narratives, creating multiple, mirror-image reversals of the texts and their meaning. The inverted and mixed-up tales, which are intercut with Jonas' ritualistic performances, merge into a composition of transformation and sexuality that evokes the tangled subconscious of male and female desire. Jonas performs wearing a veiled doll face as she manipulates childlike objects or partners a skeleton in a danse macabre. Charged with the sublimated fears and fantasies of childhood, the tape's imagery mirrors the fairy tales in its fusion of innocence and horror, dream and nightmare.
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Upsidedown and Backwards runs 29 minutes (0h 29m).
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Upsidedown and Backwards isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1980. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Upsidedown and Backwards?
Upsidedown and Backwards (1980) was directed by Joan Jonas.