HD VIDEO, COLOUR, DOLBY DIGITAL, 88 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT/EDITOR: CAM ARCHER / CINEMATOGRAPHER: AARON PLATT / PRODUCTION CO: CUT AND PASTE FILMS / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: CAM ARCHER, 2007
Wild Tigers I Have Known enters the fragmented inner world of Logan (Malcolm Stumpf), an androgynous adolescent who daydreams and fantasises over high school wrestler Rodeo (Patrick White). Logan clumsily experiments with cross-dressing, inventing a female persona to make erotic phone calls to an unsuspecting Rodeo. While Logan struggles with his desires, mountain lions stray close to his school, ellicting a form of outsider-identification and becoming a metaphor for the untamed sexual impulses gripping him. Cam Archer's striking first feature was developed through the Sundance Screenwriter's Lab and shot on HD digital video by Aaron Platt, signalling a bold new era of independent queer filmmaking.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Wild Tigers I Have Known
Friday, July 18, 2008
American Fame Part Two: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis
16MM, BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOUR, SOUND, 15 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT/EDITOR: CAM ARCHER / CINEMATOGRAPHER: AARON PLATT / PRODUCTION CO: CUT AND PASTE FILMS / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: CAM ARCHER / SCREENING FORMAT: DIGITAL BETACAM, 2005
Cam Archer revisits the life of child actor Jonathan Brandis who committed suicide in 2003. Lydia Lunch narrates this meditation on fame, the actor’s pressure to remain in the public eye and the surreal events in the lead up to his unexplained death.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
American Fame Part One: Drowning River Phoenix
16MM, COLOUR, SOUND, 11 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT/EDITOR: CAM ARCHER / CINEMATOGRAPHER: AARON PLATT / PRODUCTION CO: CUT AND PASTE FILMS / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: CAM ARCHER / SCREENING FORMAT: DIGITAL BETACAM, 2004
Lydia Lunch narrates this introspective look at the intoxicating nature of celebrity made explicit in the life and death of River Phoenix.
