Fragment of an Unidentified Work by J.X. Williams, Article #306
JX Williams - 1900 - US/? - version anglaise - 2' - 16mm
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This fragment is of unknown origin but may have come from Black Messiah, a U.S-Italian co-production that J.X. Williams directed in 1975. In this sequence, religious and lepidopterological imagery is blended to disquieting effect.
Fragment of an Unidentified Work by J.X. Williams, Article #427
JX Williams - 1900 - US - version anglaise - 4' - 16mm
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This climactic sequence probably came from the lost Williams film Airport ‘73 (distributed under the title Airport Holocaust in Europe). It presents a series of apocalyptic tableaux that eerily presage the destructive force of 9/11.
Sex Crimes of the 21st Century
J.X Williams - 1973 - US - version anglaise - 10' - 16mm
With John Holmes, Marilyn Chambers, Music by Bruce Haack,
"I had fled the US because of a obscenity rap (again) and was doing a porn shoot up North in Toronto. I actually had a respectable budget for once and we flew in some top talent like John Holmes and Marilyn Chambers. We even had enough money to commission a bizzarro-electronic soundtrack by some local goof named Bruce Haack who recorded (get this) children’s records for a living. The production was unremarkable besides the presence of an uncredited producer who later cast Marilyn in a horror film he directed. He also stole footage from me to use in his film but that’s showbiz. Unlike yours truly, he became real famous so I won’t mention his name. Anyway, I only have the first ten minutes of the film. I don’t know what happened to (the?) rest of it but the film wasn’t very good anyhow."
J.X. Williams from the forthcoming documentary The Big Footnote
Fragment of an Unidentified Work by J.X. Williams, Article #306
J.X Williams - 1970 - US/? - 4' - 16mm
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The last four minutes of a European co-production that Williams later disavowed. (The director is listed as “Rex Williams” in the credits). As far as we know, the film was never released due to legal issues and the single release 35mm print of the film has gone missing long ago. The 16mm reduction print that we are screening is of unknown origin.
The 400 Blow Jobs
J.X Williams - 1960 - US - version anglaise - 3' - 8mm ()
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While banished to the Hollywood blacklist, Williams wrote and directed over 200 stag films over a period of fifteen years. Decades before Pulp Friction and Forrest Hump, Williams perfected the art of the porn parody with films such as A Streetwalker Named Desire and High Poon. Only a few of these films still exist today, often in nearly unwatchable condition. This wickedly funny take-off of Truffaut’s 400 Coups is one the few remaining artifacts from this period in Williams’ filmogrpahy.
J.X. Williams' L.A.
Noel Lawrence & Chris Manz - 2009 - US - version anglaise - 39' - Video
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There are two main characters in this picture: J.X. Williams and the city of Los Angeles. However, if you subscribe to the claim of many that J.X. Williams is Los Angeles, perhaps this picture is about one character.
