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Jonesy + Jamie C Knight
Jonesy is an artist and filmmaker working in Los Angeles. He studied photography and video at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. In the 90’s he was a member of the queercore band Fagbash in San Francisco which continues to inform his aesthetic. Since 2008, he has been creating films, music, installation and performance. In 2015, Jonesy founded die Kränken after doing research into the large collection of holdings of Southern California Gay Motorcycle Clubs at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. With a team of collaborators, they have built a body of work around the vast ephemera of these clubs for a 2017 exhibition at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Jonesy’s work has been screened and shown at the Hammer Museum, Yale University, the REDCAT Theatre, Oberhausen Film Festival, POPA Buenos Aires, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Anthology Film Archives, OUTsider Festival, Outfest Los Angeles, and the British Film Institute.
Show Description
The Figa (2018) is a single channel 28 minute video by Jonesy and Jaime C Knight made in collaboration with cultural anthropologist and theorist Gayle Rubin. In the film, Gayle talks about the history of fisting, the San Francisco club the Catacombs and the field work she did there in the late 1970’s. Gayle’s interview is paired with a loose interpretive reenactment created with Los Angeles and Texas based artists, choreographers and queer luminaries.
Show Description
The Figa (2018) is a single channel 28 minute video by Jonesy and Jaime C Knight made in collaboration with cultural anthropologist and theorist Gayle Rubin. In the film, Gayle talks about the history of fisting, the San Francisco club the Catacombs and the field work she did there in the late 1970’s. Gayle’s interview is paired with a loose interpretive reenactment created with Los Angeles and Texas based artists, choreographers and queer luminaries.