More British Sounds - Movie

More British Sounds

William E. Jones
Experimental : 8' / Politics, Pornography, Archive

Images from The British Are Coming (James Ryder, 1986) collide with dialogue from See You at Mao, aka British Sounds (1969), produced by the Dziga Vertov Group under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard. “Workers have come to expect too much”, a narrator intones, as an English lad in a state of undress polishes the boots of a royal guard in full uniform.

Sections: QL - Retrospective
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Year: 2006

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)