Discrepancy - Movie - Festival QUEER

Discrepancy

William E. Jones
Experimenetal : 10' / Dystopian, Archive, Politics

The soundtrack of the film, read by the computer voice Alex, is adapted from the film Traité de bave et d’éternité (1951), by Isidore Isou. The film is Isou’s manifesto of 'cinéma discrepant'. The fundamental principle of discrepant cinema is a disregard of the image in order to privilege written narration. There is no attempt to illustrate the text. The relation of sound and image can—indeed, should—be as arbitrary and opaque as possible.

Sections: QL - Retrospective
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Year: 2017

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

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William E. Jones

USA

For over three decades, William E. Jones (Canton, Ohio, USA, 1962) has been producing films, videos, photographs, and books that re-examine existing cultural materials. He has explored the decline of America’s industrial Midwest, the representation of gay men in sources as diverse as Eastern European pornography and police surveillance footage, the psychedelic visual potential of Cold War military footage, and poetic connections between the randomized nature of the Internet and ancient philosophy. Jones has been the subject of many solo exhibitions and retrospectives at internationally renowned institutions. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Filmography

Selected

2015 – Psychic Driving (Experimental Short)
2013 – Actual T.V. Picture (Experimental Short)
2012 – Shoot Don’t Shoot (Experimental Short)
1962-2007 – Tearoom (Experimental Feature)
2006 – Film Montages (for Peter Roehr) (Experimental Short)

2006 – V.O. (Experimental Feature)

2004 – Is It Really so Strange? (Documentary)
1998 – The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (Short Documentary)

1997 – Finished (Experimental Documentary)
1991 – Massillon (Documentary)