Johan Camitz
Biography
Johan Georg Camitz, better know as Jhoan Camitz, was a Swedish filmmaker. He created offbeat, rare and eccentric music-videos and advertising films. At his death by accident, he was working on his first feature film, "Already Dead - a California Gothic", a novel by Denis Johnson.
Known For & Full Filmography2 Titles
Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Bengt
The purpose of the work is to illuminate the human process in the 21st century. In times of personal independence and immense opportunities relationships have become non-relationships. The nature of being human thus becomes a complex navigation through dangerous waters where everyone feeds on their neighbor and the possibility of love is blocked by a constant emotional distortion, yet there are no boundaries; the field opens up a plethora of crossroads. The individual loses sense of direction and amidst confusion there is the future, as distant as it seems, ever present, irreversible.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Self
"Camitz - another time, another place" - About the Swedish filmmaker Jhoan Camitz who directed the Spice Girls first video "Wannabe". He was a willful creator who won several awards for his iconic and offbeat commercials. Johan Camitz was killed in a chaotic car accident in New York, 2000. He was crossing a street when he was hit by a suv with a dying man behind the wheel.