William E. Jones 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, and the feature length documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004). His work has been shown at the Cinémathèque française and Musée du Louvre, Paris; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Oberhausen Short 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. He was included in the 1993 and 2008 Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has published two books: Is It Really So Strange? (2006) and Tearoom (2008). His work is represented by David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. He works in the adult video industry under the name Hudson Wilcox and teaches film history at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena 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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