Upland BB Fighting Follies
This extremely raw video compilation looks at the early backyard wrestling movement in southern California. Jamie compiled and mixed together both his own video documentation with the footage shot bij the teenage wrestlers who videotaped themselves for their own purposes to watch, circulate, and trade amongst their small circle of friends. The two perspectives of documentation collide into one universe without any borders as if the viewer enters the crude and apocalyptic arena of the American suburban landscape. Jamie made this tape strictly as a personal study for himself during the years he spent researching the backyard wrestling phenomenon. He later filmed and realised the epic silent black-and-white Super8 film BB in 2000.
Also in this combined programme
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La baguette
Again a wordless wrestling match in which a wrestler, this time in an anonymous bar in Bordeaux, takes on a ‘typical’ Frenchman. -
The New Life
With this almost wordless orchestrated wrestling match in a small apartment, Jamie sets one of his favourite characters, the popular lucha libre wrest
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1999
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 60'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP NTSC
