| Texas Screenings |
| There
are screenings of my movie coming up deep in the heart of Tejas:
HOUSTON AUSTIN |
| Screenings for Is It Really So Strange? |
| At
the beginning of April I had a retrospective of my films and videos at London's
Tate Gallery, and in conjunction with these screenings, the London Lesbian
and Gay Film Festival held the premiere of Is It Really So Strange? at the National Film Theatre. Other screenings of the movie have been arranged, and still more are in the works. This is a list of confirmed screenings: LONDON,
ENGLAND: COLUMBUS,
OHIO: MANCHESTER,
ENGLAND: SAN
FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: LOS
ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: BELFAST,
NORTHERN IRELAND: |
| Mad About Morrissey : The Guardian |
| Mad
about Morrissey: Why has the ex-Smith developed a cult following among LA
Latinos? Iain Aitch on a film about an unlikely obsession Read full article Friday March 25, 2005 The Guardian |
| Is It Really So Strange? an intimate look at contemporary fans of The Smiths and Morrissey |
 Filmmaker
William Jones has recently completed Is It Really So Strange?, an 80 minute
documentary two years in the making. The movie features Moz fans speaking
at length about their lives, their loves, and their brief encounters with
their idol. They show their bedroom shrines, talk about the nostalgic
fashion of the scene, and reveal the private passions that compelled them
to worship the Irish working class boy from Manchester who became a great
pop star and moved to Los Angeles. Screenings of Is It Really So Strange? will be announced on shiftlessbody.com. Questions? Contact William Jones at shiftlessbody@hotmail.com |
| September 26, 2004 |
| I
was interviewed recently for the National Public Radio show, "Latino
USA". Correspondent Stephen Cuevas conducted a phone interview with
Sweet and Tender Hooligan Jose Maldonado and me in a studio in downtown Download mp3 >> Latino USA @ 3.45mb |
| August 30, 2004 |
| I recently returned from three weeks at the Wexner Center in Ohio, where I nearly completed my new movie, Is It Really So Strange?. (I have been so busy with production and post production that I had no time to add new entires to the News section for a while.) In a couple of weeks, I will do a final sound mix in a studio in Los Angeles. Then the opus will be ready for submitting to film festivals, and other forms of ritual embarrassment. During lulls in my work on the Avid, I made a trailer for the movie. The trailer is a bit odd, since I used the almost cubist look of a betacam tape fast forwarding to fill in gaps in the picture. Some of my subjects were too shy to show their faces while they talked about their great passion, Morrissey. I think this entirely appropriate considering the subject. Download the 'Is It Really So Strange?' Trailer (right click, save target as -- 4.47mb) |
| April 9, 2004 |
| Hooligans
Unplugged
The Sweet and Tender Hooligans very kindly played a special acoustic set in the gallery in honor of the exhibit, “Is It Really So Strange?” They began the set with (what else?) “William, It Was Really Nothing” and followed with such favorites as “Back to the Old House”, “Half a Person”, “I Won’t Share You”, and their final song, “Suedehead”. The audience was swept away by the drama of seeing them perform up close, without amplification. Some of the pictures of the event are a bit blurry. Think of them as seen through a veil of tears. view >> Hooligans Unplugged |
| Mar. 15, 2004 |
| Review at Artforum.com In an ongoing series of richly printed black-and-white photographs, William Jones explores a self-organized "movement" of mostly Latino Southern California kids enthralled by Morrissey and the Smiths. More than a mere fashion appropriation, the parallels between '80s Manchester and postmillennial SoCal suggest a complex cultural transposition that is not entirely linear. Read the entire review here >> Review by Michael Ned Holte | Talk Back section |
| Mar. 9, 2004 |
| “Is It Really So Strange?” opened with a reception that drew a sizable crowd of art lovers and Morrissey fans. After a rigorous regime of meeting and greeting, the artist and a select few companions withdrew to Full House, the Chinese restaurant down the block. Well-wishers and assorted hipsters then repaired to the bar Hop Louie, and finally The Mountain, for a scintillating night of alcoholic consumption and sexual harassment. The whole sordid process was documented by Violet Hopkins in digital pictures. (The exhibit is on view until April 10th.) view
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Opening Reception |
| Feb. 12, 2004 |
 William
Jones "Is It Really So Strange?" February 27, 2004 Reception 6-9 pm Artist Talk Golinko
Kordansky Gallery |
| Nov. 28, 2003 |
 LA
Weekly- Considerable Peoplevolume 26, number 1 (Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 2003) |
