Product Description: Cameron Jamie's calling is tracking down extreme social phenomena and presenting them in short documentary films. His best known film, BB, documents "backyard wrestling" among working-class kids in his native San Fernando Valley. In Spook Houses, he explores a suburban Chicago community that takes a little too much pleasure in the macabre at Halloween, transforming front lawns into cemeteries and kitchens into mausoleums...read more
9783775717267 | Hatje Cantz Pub, July 31, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Cameron Jamie's calling is tracking down extreme social phenomena and presenting them in short documentary films.
Product Description: Cameron Jamie's work--a blend of video, sound, performance, photography and drawing--confronts the dysfunction of European and American society. His critical gaze often focuses on ritualistic practices in popular culture, such as hot dog eating contests and backyard wrestling...read more
9780935640878 | Walker Art Center, June 1, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Cameron Jamie's work--a blend of video, sound, performance, photography and drawing--confronts the dysfunction of European and American society.