Begin Again (2006) is emblematic of Joan Jonas’s practice. It contains many recurring elements and motifs of Jonas’s video performances from the 1970s and 1980s as well as contemporary reimagining and references. In the video work, we see the artist re-edit footage, performed anew for camera, handling objects and occasionally interlocuting these actions. Nature, landscapes and animals; children; sound and music; mirrors and masks; images, objects, and rituals gathered from past works, her travels, and her immediate environment. Begin Again exemplifies the familiar strategy of facilitating the transition from one medium to another and one context to the next. Rearranged, newly articulated, the past imbibed with the now. There is a familiarity with the technique, driven by the critical and inquisitive impulse to explore and mine the possibilities of video as a technology that can address the past, simultaneously to the precise present, an impulse that has long sustained her work. In Begin Again, we get close and intimate access to core tenets of the work; fragmentation, repetition, and reflection; we see the iterative and contingent as a generative that revels in the non-linear and the cyclical nature of time.