IFFR 2008

Cameron Jamie

Again a wordless wrestling match in which a wrestler, this time in an anonymous bar in Bordeaux, takes on a 'typical' Frenchman.

Artist in Focus: Cameron Jamie

La baguette

Short but intense study of 'back-garden wrestling' in the stultifying suburbs of Los Angeles, where young men fight in home-made wrestling rings. The fights look just as boundless as bound to rules and offer a handhold in disconsolate surroundings .

Keiji Haino, the cult guru of the Japanese noise scene, plays live to accompany Cameron Jamie's film JO.

Cameron Jamie Live: Keiji Haino Plays JO

The metal of The Melvins and the noise of Keiji Haino join forces for a live soundtrack with the Cameron Jamie films BB, JO and Kranky Klaus (KK).

Cameron Jamie Live: The Melvins & Keiji Haino Play BB/JO/KK Remix

The Melvins live playing a very loud metal soundtrack to accompany the Cameron Jamie films BB, Kranky Klaus and Spook House.

Cameron Jamie Live: The Melvins Play BB, Kranky Klaus and Spook House

Artist in Focus Cameron Jamie selected several films he wanted to see screened in Rotterdam. Strange American cinema that transcends the usual genres and labels and invites one to look with different eyes.

Cinematic Nuggets:  Selection of Films by Cameron Jamie

Jeanne d’Arc and Independence Day still provide material for unbridled patriotic parades and events. Without a word being spoken, Jamie shows how close France and the USA are to each other. Keiji Haino’s instrumental violence sets the tone

Recording of the annual Christmas folklore street ritual Krampus in Austria, in which people dressed up as hairy monsters scare the wits out of the population. The accompanying metal soundtrack by The Melvins provides a curious American perspective.

Kranky Klaus

Cameron Jamie's obsession with collecting extreme behaviour of modern man, summarised in a compilation of public-access television broadcasts that show the strange things people do.

Neotoma Tape

With this almost wordless orchestrated wrestling match in a small apartment, Jamie sets one of his favourite characters, the popular lucha libre wrestler, up against another popular icon, a bleached fake Michael Jackson.

The New Life

Documentary study about macabre Halloween decorations hanging in houses and gardens giving them the form of real torture rooms and frightening cemeteries. The film does not so much celebrate the freaky side of this phenomenon, but presents it as a kind of theatre about our own hidden history.

Spook House

Extremely raw video compilation that looks at the early backyard wrestling movement in Southern California, strictly made as a personal study while researching for BB.

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