James Fotopoulos Movies

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

16mm film (b&w/color)

Filmed in saturated colors on out-of-date film stocks with an aggressive soundtrack, the story of The Nest is told – The marriage of two young...

A film by James Fotopoulos

The past, present and future. Final Obscura is a visionary film that unfolds on a space where the lines between past, present, and future dissolve...

Short film from James Fotopoulos

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...

Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.

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

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...

16mm film (color)

2002, 2 min, sound

Video portrait by James Fotopoulos.

A video by James Fotopoulos

A drifter of a small storefront church's congregation stumbles across a large insect last seen before Christ and emerging en masse to render a new...

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

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

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...