Psychic Driving
William E. Jones
Experimental : 14' / Drugs, Trauma, Politics

Psychic Driving deals with experiments involving hallucinogenic drugs and massive doses of electroshock administered to unwitting subjects. The psychiatrist in charge treated patients to destroy depressed personalities and then build them back up again. His funding came from the CIA. One of the subjects, the wife of a member of the Canadian Parliament, speaks out in an interview.

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa
September 26 | 21h30 | Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro Buy Tickets
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/ Details

Year: 2014

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

/ 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.

 

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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)

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