G.B. Jones

G.B. Jones

G. B. Jones is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, musician, and publisher of zines based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her art work has been featured at galleries around the world, and her films screened at numerous film festivals, both in Canada and abroad.

Movies for G.B. Jones...

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Title: Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Character: Self
Released: June 12, 2017
Type: Movie
A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's disapproval of the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender communities.
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She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
Title: She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
Character: herself
Released: April 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Documentary about the groundbreaking queer feminist art band Fifth Column, who were at the centre of Toronto’s influential Queercore scene in the 1980-90s.
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Ballistica
Title: Ballistica
Character: Steckler the Alley Thug (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 2009
Type: Movie
A man has been trained in a deadly form of hand-to-hand combat using ballistics and firearms. He is one of the few Americans who has perfected it, which makes him the CIA's best weapon against International Terrorism.
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The Lollipop Generation
Title: The Lollipop Generation
Released: April 3, 2008
Type: Movie
The Lollipop Generation tells the story of Georgie, a teenager who is forced to run away from home after coming out to her parents, and the homeless queer youth and other people she meets on the streets.
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The Yo-Yo Gang
Title: The Yo-Yo Gang
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Amid girl fights, girl on girl sex and boy on boy sex, and a measure of BDSM, the YoYo gang battles the Skateboard Bitches.
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No Skin Off My Ass
Title: No Skin Off My Ass
Character: Jonesy
Released: November 8, 1991
Type: Movie
A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of "That Cold Day in the Park" then visits a local park to invite a down-and-out skinhead to his apartment. He draws the silent man a bath and talks to him as he soaks. He locks his guest in a bedroom. Next day, the skinhead leaves through the window and visits his sister, who's making a film called "Sisters of the SLA." He helps with a screen-test. The hairdresser has dreams and fantasies involving the skinhead, the skinhead returns to visit him, and then the filmmaker pays a call on the two men, exposing her brother as faking his silence and pretending a lack of sexual interest. Fantasies can come true.
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The Troublemakers
Title: The Troublemakers
Character: Filmmaker
Released: March 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The Troublemakers follows the lives of four down-on-their-luck characters. Surrounded by the vestiges of conspicuous consumption, they struggle to survive outside of society, fashioning their own aesthetics of poverty and devising strategies to navigate a surveillance society, evading or performing for cameras everywhere.
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Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
Title: Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Experimental short film depicting the home movies of Bruce Wayne Gacy and Pepper Wayne Gacy, the children of the notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
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Boy / Girl
Title: Boy / Girl
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
In LaBruce’s first short experimental super 8 film, a loose narrative is constructed out of a variety of film clips, some shot on location by the filmmaker, some found footage, and some shot off the television screen. A woman with long red hair (G.B. Jones) sits on a window sill and looks down with her binoculars at the street below. Meanwhile, Mary Tyler Moore escapes from an aggressive man and runs to the park. Boy/Girl is a documentation of a period of time when filmmaker LaBruce lived in a crummy, squat-like building at Queen and Parliament Streets in Toronto with the all-girl punk band, Fifth Column.