PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 200 pgs / 200 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/1/2006
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 124

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775717267 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CAD $40.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
NA LA

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Essays by Gary Indiana, Mike Kelley and Ralph Rugoff.

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. And in Kranky Claus, a film about Krampus rituals in Austria, he accompanies those legendary demons on their nightmarish pre-Christmas tour, thrashing frightened children. As Jamie says of his subjects and as he proves to his audiences, "The creepiest things in the world are always the things that are considered to be the most Œnormal.'"