01/08/2026
The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Po*******hy
by William E. Jones is online until the end of August!
The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Po*******hy is a short video work composed of found pornographic footage from the early 1990s, following the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. The film presents encounters between Western men and younger Eastern European men, capturing a moment of geopolitical transition through intimate, transactional exchanges. Stripped of conventional narrative, the work foregrounds the bodies, gestures, and dynamics of looking, revealing underlying tensions of desire, power, and economic disparity.
Watch on our website and listen to the conversation between William E. Jones, Anna Łuczak and Sophie Bates
This conversation and online screening form a part of WHO FILMS WHO? WET’s 2026 thematic programme exploring authorship, representation, and the dynamics between filmmaker and subject. This year we are presenting films that have sparked controversy, been withdrawn, or censored, examining how social norms—both formal and informal—shape moving-image culture and what this reveals about the times in which we live.
William E. Jones, based in Los Angeles, makes films, film installations, paintings, reconstructs and restores works from marginal masters, teaches, curates, writes about the cinema and creates art books. Through all these mediums, he explores s*xuality, history, and systems of power. His films have been shown internationally, including at Anthology Film Archives in New York, the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, among many others.
Find the audio and video here: www.wetfilm.org
