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The fall of Communism as the Noticed in Gay Porno
Over the course of 30 years, William E. Jones has produced a genre-defying body of work that includes films https://besthookupwebsites.org/willow-review/, videos, photographs, and texts. He alternately employs research, critique, autobiography, fiction, and appropriation to offer bracing-and often controversial-reassessments of the historical record. Late Communism because Observed in Gay Porno (1998) is an important video from a moment in Jones's career when he was beginning to leave behind the world of independent documentary cinema for a more free-wheeling practice that existed�-and continues to exist-at the margins between several disciplines. It is comprised entirely of footage from gay adult videos made in Eastern Europe in the first years after the arrival of capitalism. In this interview with Stuart Krimko, the gallery's Research and Editorial Director, Jones discusses the video's genesis, historical background, and continued relevance.
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Let's start with the basics. Where did the material that makes up Late Communism... originate, and how did it fall into your hands?
In the mid-1990s, I worked in a video store and saw the release of a wave of gay adult videos shot in Eastern Europe. They were products of a crude imperialist enterprise: cheap and nasty looking, with an atmosphere of coercion and cultural misunderstanding pervading them. Customers adored these videos, and expressed their breathless admiration whenever given the chance. The moment I saw the cover of Guys of your Balkans, the first gay porn film shot in Bulgaria, I knew I had found a subject for a video.
