William E. Jones
He Brought a Swastika to the Summer of Love
From Volume 1. Home is a Foreign Place
About He Brought a Swastika to the Summer of Love
In He Brought a Swastika to the Summer of Love, the filmmaker, artist, and writer William E. Jones closely reads the fascist iconography in four films by the American avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger—Fireworks, Invocation of My Demon Brother Scorpio Rising, and Lucifer Rising—for their prescient, unnerving connections to our contemporary political moment.
About William E. Jones
William E. Jones is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. He has made two feature-length experimental films, Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997); the documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004); and videos including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998), Psychic Driving (2014), and Fall into Ruin (2017). His work has been the subject of retrospectives at Tate Modern, London (2005); Anthology Film Archives, New York (2010); and the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna (2011). He is the author of the nonfiction books Killed: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010), Halsted Plays Himself (2011), Imitation of Christ (2013), and True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell (2016), as well as the novels I’m Open to Anything (2019) and I Should Have Known Better (2021). He lives in Los Angeles.
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