Is It Really so Strange? - Movie

Is It Really so Strange?

William E. Jones
Documentary : 80' / Art & Artists, Community, Identity

As the foppish, sexually ambiguous, brilliant singer/songwriter of the legendary band The Smiths, Morrissey brought intelligence, wit, and mystery to pop tunes, still unmatched in their ability to make grown men cry. Making the connection between The Smiths’ working-class, Manchester-raised, ethnic Irish experience and that of the sons and daughters of Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles, William E. Jones interviews a fanatical fan base: Latino youths in East Los Angeles in the mid-aughts.

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa

September 28 | 21h30 | Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro Buy Tickets

Sections: QL - Retrospective
+ Info: https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com

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Year: 2004

Country: USA

Language: english and spanish

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Elijah Cortez, Rita Gonzales, Laura Leon, Victor Placencia, Melissa Szabo, Inez Parra

/ Direction

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)