Cameron Jamie

Cameron Jamie

Lonesome Boogie Rattler

2006

 

 

I was kind of surprised after doing some research on Cameron Jamie to find that I have kind of a new found respect for him. At first glance I honestly thought wow another Ralph Steadman.  I remember thinking wow I have stacks of shit that looks like this.  After some research though I discovered that I had a much bigger apprieciation for it.  Cameron started out and became known for his work with film.  He uses many mediums for his work these days.  This gives his work a much more postmodern feel.  He spends a lot of his time studying different subcultures and how they adapt to their surroundings.  Places like homemade haunted houses and backyard wrestling to name a few.  His work has a much darker feel to it.  Some people I guess would consider it pretty vulgar.  I think from what I’ve seen it conveys the decline of our society and subcultures rather acurattly.   I have been trying to locate a trailer for a couple of his films but that is proving to be a bigger task then I thought it would be using any internet search engine.  Damn you James Cameron!  There is a film called “Kranky Klaus” that I’m most interested in.  If anybody finds something let me know.  I’m going to keep looking.   

 

 

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