James Fotopoulos Movies

16mm film (b&w)

Thousands of years into the future, through the eyes of an alien life form, we see the fossilized beings of Ronald Reagan and William Casey enact...

What makes a rebel? This 78 minute documentary probes the psyche of bad-boy publisher and free speech warrior Barney Rosset, whose mid-century legal...

Agents Mr. Rainbow and Mr. Lamb are sent to an alien planet fighting a civil war. Their mission to destroy a perpetual motion machine is interrupted...

Short film from James Fotopoulos

A man and woman embark on a sexual journey to detach mind from body. The relationship slowly grows into one of emotional domination, physical...

Short film from James Fotopoulos

Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.

The story of young sisters in the American Midwest left alone with their increasingly unstable mother while their father is fighting in the Civil...

Two of the female characters from Jerusalem (2003) appear in a new location: a black and white minimalist apartment. With the aid of drawings to...

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

An adaptation of the 1886 musical “Alice in Wonderland: A Dream Play for Children” by Henry Saville Clark and Walter Slaughter,...

Jerusalem is the first of four videos (followed by Sublimation [2003], Conjunction [2003] and The Pearl [2004]) exploring inter-dimensional travel....

A disgruntled veteran unable to adjust back into society justifies domestic terrorism by interpreting his actions with alien invasion.

5-parts, (Consumed 1-5), 16mm film (b&w & color)

An actress living in New York performs an audition, then goes to meditation and winds up at a party of artists viewing a film. At home, she and her...

16mm film (b&w/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...

Video portrait by James Fotopoulos.

Short film from James Fotopoulos, 16mm film (b&w).