Deep Blue Sea by Bill T. Jones short doc film by Janet Wong The Problem, 2020

commissioned by Holland Festival a rumination on Deep Blue Sea a Park Avenue Armory commission originally to premiere in April 2020 with Bill T. Jones What goes on in the mind of Bill T. Jones while making his work For this short video montage, Janet Wong Jones artistic assistant and associate artistic director of New York Live Arts gathered clips that give a sense of how Jones works and where he gets his inspiration. These include behindthescenes clips of rehearsals. For Deep Blue Sea, he was inspired by, among other things, Herman Melvilles Moby Dick, in which the young black sidecharacter Pip finds himself in the water during a whaling expedition.