James Fotopoulos Movies

Short film from James Fotopoulos

Video (color)

Short film from James Fotopoulos

Christabel is an abstract interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s unfinished Gothic poem about female possession. Adhering to the...

Written in 1993, Thick Comb was James Fotopoulos’ earliest unrealized script, about a criminal porn producer hunting down the world’s...

A low-fi, grimy, VHS, edited in-camera, apocalyptic feature finalizes the cycle of videos that began with Jerusalem (2003). Two of the actresses from...

"...the simplest and most beautiful of [Fotopoulos'] early video features, which simply follows the movements of a model whose body is (re)filmed so...

Short film from James Fotopoulos

A digital poem of the flesh unfolding in near mathematical structural precision. The video’s first segment is a meditation upon the movements...

Short film from James Fotopoulos

Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.

Filmed in saturated colors on out-of-date film stocks with an aggressive soundtrack, the story of The Nest is told – The marriage of two young...

The origins of the universe told through the lens of an experimental film and video sci-fi horror-show fusion: Alien women trapped in a colorfully...

Life in a rural industrial town: a teenage boy, his family, friends and failed attempt at love are investigated through stark black-and-white...

16mm film (color)

Completed in 2000 (the same year as his third feature-length work, BACK AGAINST THE WALL), James Fotopoulos' THE SUN is a 16mm silent short that...

Short film from James Fotopoulos

A film by James Fotopoulos

James Fotopoulos’ first feature film is a two and half hour endurance test about a lonely man’s decent into horror, mutilation and...

Video (color)