Friday, January 7th, 2005
23-year-old Cam Archer has created a series of surreal mini-films, “The Johnny Spots,” to promote his latest film American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis, about the child former child actor who committed suicide last year. The film premieres at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
“I have my actors in the film wearing masks, writes Archer on his Web site. ” I did this deliberately. I want people to see that fame, this thing (beast) that so many obsess over, is not as ‘person specific’ as we might think. Jonathan [Brandis] could’ve been any kid that got a lucky break and had pushy parents. So, once again, I had my main actor wear a faceless, or ‘all-white’ mask, the idea of it not really mattering as to what this character looked like underneath.”
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Monday, November 1st, 2004
The latest film by 23-year-old wunderkind Cam Archer, American Fame, Pt. 1: Drowning River Phoenix, narrated by Lydia Lunch and featuring 15-year-old Jasper Bel as River Phoenix, screens at the AFI Fest on November 10 and 13.
Archer recently completed American Fame, Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis about the former child star who committed suicide in 2003, but so far there is no word on when or where the film, also narrated by Lydia Lunch, will premiere.
Earlier this year Archer completed Godly Boyish, a short film narrated by Joan Jett and featuring Jasper Bel and 14-year-old Cassidy Field; The Cold Ones about a sister and brother coping with their father’s murder and their mother’s abandonment of the family; and a music video for Imperial Teen’s “Our Time”.
His debut feature script Wild Tigers I Have Known, which Gus Van Sant is exec producing and Linda Barry is producing, was included in the 2004 IFP Market. Archer’s bobbycrush, featuring Jasper Bel and Cassidy Field, was nominated for a Student Academy Award and screened earlier this summer on the Sundance Channel.
Each of Archer’s films were shot by cinematographer Aaron Platt.
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