Fall into Ruin - Movie - Festival QUEER

Fall into Ruin

William E. Jones
Documentary : 30' / Autobiographical, HIV-AIDS, Art & Artists, Essay

Alexander Iolas (1907-1987) was a Greek art dealer from Alexandria active from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. He had close connections to the Surrealists, to artists associated with Nouveau réalisme, and to American artists, and maintained galleries in New York, Paris, Madrid, Geneva, Milan, and Athens. After Iolas’s death from AIDS in 1987, the art collection in his house disappeared, and the empty house was later vandalized extensively. William E. Jones returned there and shows us images of the site in its ruined state as well as photographs he took of Iolas’s house in its glory in 1982.

Sections: QL - Retrospective
+ Info: https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com

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Year: 2017

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguesa

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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)