Killed - Movie - Festival QUEER

Killed

William E. Jones
Experimental : 2' / Archive, Landscape, Politics

During the Great Depression, the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration documented American society in photographs. Thousands of the pictures made under the program’s auspices from 1935 to 1943 were rejected, or killed, by punching holes in the 35mm negatives, thereby rendering them unusable for publication. Some of these suppressed images downloaded from the Library of Congress website have been reframed with the holes as the central feature, and edited in a quick montage showing glimpses of an unofficial view of Depression-era North America.

Sections: QL - Retrospective
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Year: 2009

Country: USA

Language: no dialogues

Subtitles: no subtitles

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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)