Artist in Focus: Cameron Jamie
Overview of films
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JO
Jeanne d’Arc and Independence Day still provide material for unbridled patriotic parades and events. Without a word being spoken, Jamie shows how c
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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 wr
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Cameron Jamie Live: The Melvins Play BB, Kranky Klaus and Spook House
The Melvins live playing a very loud metal soundtrack to accompany the Cameron Jamie films BB, Kranky Klaus and Spook House.
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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.
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BB
Short but intense study of ‘back-garden wrestling’ in the stultifying suburbs of Los Angeles, where young men fight in home-made wrestl
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Cinematic Nuggets: Selection of Films by Cameron Jamie
Artist in Focus Cameron Jamie selected several films he wanted to see screened in Rotterdam. Strange American cinema that transcends the usual genr
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Cameron Jamie Live: The Melvins & Keiji Haino Play BB/JO/KK Remix
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).<
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Cameron Jamie Live: Keiji Haino Plays JO
Keiji Haino, the cult guru of the Japanese noise scene, plays live to accompany Cameron Jamie’s film JO.
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Kranky Klaus
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
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Upland BB Fighting Follies
Extremely raw video compilation that looks at the early backyard wrestling movement in Southern California, strictly made as a personal study while
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Neotoma Tape
Cameron Jamie’s obsession with collecting extreme behaviour of modern man, summarised in a compilation of public-access television broadcasts
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Spook House
Documentary study about macabre Halloween decorations hanging in houses and gardens giving them the form of real torture rooms and frightening ceme