BIOGRAPHY
William E. Jones is an artist and filmmaker who grew up in Ohio and now lives and works in Los Angeles. He has made two feature length experimental films, Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997); several short videos, including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998); the feature length documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004); and many video installations. His work has been shown at the Cinémathèque française and Musée du Louvre, Paris; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle Wien and Vienna International Film Festival; Sundance Film Festival; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His films and videos were the subject of a retrospective at Tate Modern, London, in 2005, and at Anthology Film Archives, New York, in 2010. He was included in the 1993 and 2008 Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work was on view in the Nordic Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. Jones has published the following books: Is It Really So Strange? (2006), Tearoom (2008), and Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (2008) and Heliogabalus (2009). The blog Amber Waves of Brain is a collection of his writings. He is represented by David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, and his work has recently been on view at Veneklasen/Werner in Berlin. He has worked in the adult video industry under the name Hudson Wilcox, and he currently teaches film history at Art Center College of Design under his own name.
Another website, Shiftlessbody.com, is an archive of William E. Jones’s photographs, including those from the Morrissey fan project;
there you can see a trailer for Is It Really So Strange?
and you can hear an NPR interview about the movie.
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