William E. Jones

Killed 2009 101

Killed is a video projection in which William E. Jones appropriated and edited, in a rapid sequence, a selection from the more than 68,000 censored or discarded films produced by the Farm Security Administration’s photographers between...

Restaurant, Canton, Ohio 2011 101

Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker William E. Jones appropriates vintage film material that he rearranges in new compositions. Often concerned with the way gay imagery was depicted in 1970s and 1980s his early films explored complex...

Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker William E. Jones appropriates vintage film material that he rearranges into new compositions. Often concerned with the way gay imagery was depicted in 1970s and 1980s, Jones’s early films explore the complex configuration of homosexual identity with a rather nostalgic and romanticized gaze. Though fashioned in the same way, his later pieces look more directly at pornography and the appearance of fetish in popular culture.