Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay erotic videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capitalism. The video provides a glimpse of young men responding to the pressures of an unfamiliar world, one in which money, power and sex are now connected.
Direction
Jones treats porn footage like archaeological evidence. Unhinged brilliance.
Editing
Juxtaposition that weaponizes your own voyeurism against you.
Director
William E. Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jones was part of the 'queer punk' documentary movement that treated appropriated footage as radical historiography. This premiered when Belgrade was literally burning.
Jones allegedly sourced from Hungarian and Czech productions specifically because their post-communist porn industries were most documented. The man did his homework.
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