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William E. Jones: THE DICTATURE OF COMMON NAMEfor isolacinema.org by Oana Stopariu Creativity by appropiation of an entire atmosphere created around a subject, this is how William E. Jones is not only presenting and reinventing the subject of his films, but chunks down from elitist concepts to simple principles as values of life. Maybe this is why for a while his work might have seemed “simple videoish”. How did you construct/reconstruct a context for Smiths & Morrissey? So each of your films you discover a little bit of your self? He used to go out in the city and photograph a lot with a car, but after it got destroyed in an accident he didn’t replaced. As a pedestrian, he takes his time to watch people while commuting to work and a lot of his work involves film footage. His name, William E. Jones is extremely common and nowaddays with the Internet, people found out about all kind of things that had nothing to do with him. He likes to make jokes about this aribitrary atitude that took him to so many directions: he has a gallery in Los Angeles, teaches Artistical Design in Pasadena and he even has a small part-time job in the porno-industry.
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