William E. Jones

Home movies are the springboard for an analysis of contemporary meanings of "family".

Model Workers presents a collection of paper money bearing images of workers. Intricately engraved details are arranged in chronological order; full...

In More British Sounds images from The British Are Coming (1986) collide with dialogue from See You at Mao (1969) also known as British Sounds,...

Industry is composed of loops within loops, the repetitive motions of the factory, progressively simplified to fields of tones, until the images are...

Inanimate includes 120 images of objects in a portrait format found in the Library of Congress. These portraits of inanimate objects are animated...

video/colour/sound

Berlin Flash Frames makes use of unedited film found in the National Archives of the United States. Labeled with the title “Berlin 1961,”...

What Have You Been Doing? is a response to the perpetual question asked during the COVID-19 lockdown. The source materials are extremely degraded...

Tearoom consists of footage shot by the police in the course of a crackdown on public sex in the American Midwest. In the summer of 1962, the...

The Soviet Army Prepares for Action in Afghanistan is derived from four shots of a Soviet film called Heirs of Victory (1975) which commemorates the...

William E. Jones's autobiographical film about growing up gay in the small Ohio town of Massillon pushes the boundaries of documentary by offering a...

A Great Way of Life is a mash-up of images of the imperialist war machine and sounds of the consumer economy, juxtaposing the Viet Nam War during the...

An instructional film on when to shoot at a victim and when to wait. The film plays with instructions for real action, but also explores the short...

Actual T. V. Picture (2013) juxtaposes footage of a jungle in Viet Nam being bombed by an American war plane with a late-60s television commercial...

In a variation on what DJs call a “mash-up,” director William E. Jones combines segments of sound from classic foreign language films...

Old photos with holes punched in them.

3000 Killed consists of 2992 images, plus explanatory titles at the beginning and end, without zooms. During the Great Depression, the Historical...

In this essay film, the narrator describes how his fixation on a gay pornographic model from a phone sex advertisement leads to a new project, an...

Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one...

Its images taken from a Technicolor propaganda film in lurid color, Discrepancy (A New All Around Leap Forward Situation Is Emerging) presents...

During the Great Depression, the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration documented American society in photographs. Thousands of the...

Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay erotic videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of...

The soundtrack of Discrepancy, read by the computer voice “Alex,” is adapted from the film Traité de bave et...

In William E. Jones’ Psychic Driving, a 1979 television broadcast, in which the wife of a Canadian M.P. details her horrific ordeal during...

After Iolas’s death from AIDS in 1987, the art collection in his house disappeared; this collection included Egyptian, Greek, and Roman...

Making the connection between The Smiths' working-class, Manchester-raised, ethnic Irish experience and that of the sons and daughters of Latino...

In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio, Police Department photographed men having sex in a public restroom under the main square of the city. A...

All Male Mash Up makes use of the gay porn industry’s marginalia: establishing shots revealing urban landscapes of the recent past, charmingly...

Bay of Pigs makes use of a “captured” film from the CIA Film Library, Girón, a production of El Instituto Cubano de Arte e...

The evolution of an Ohio rust belt city is examined in this double-screen projection by Massillon-born, Los Angeles–based artist William E....

The original footage of Spatial Disorientation is a flight test seen from the cockpit of a U. S. Air Force plane. The material has been edited into a...

An appropriated video work that also serves as a tribute to a great artist of the 1960s, Film Montages (for Peter Roehr) takes simple repetition as...