James Fotopoulos Trailers
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Born in Norridge, IL in 1976, James Fotopoulos is a filmmaker who began production on his first feature-length film, ZERO (1997), in 1995. In 1998, he founded Fantasma for the production of his second feature, Migrating Forms (1999), and would continue to create a number of critically acclaimed narrative feature films, such as Back Against the Wall (2000), Families (2002), The Nest (2003) and Dignity (2012). Along with his narrative productions, Fotopoulos has created a prolific body of over 200 non-narrative films, which include Christabel (2001), Esophagus (2004), The Mirror Mask (2005), The Sky Song (2007) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). These works range from feature length to a few seconds long and combine an exhaustive portfolio of visual art and performance techniques. Fotopoulos' work received a retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives; premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, Festival del Film Locarno and the Museum of Art and Design; and was screened and exhibited widely at a number of film festivals, museums, and sites, such as Rotterdam International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, London Film Festival, Whitney Biennial, Walker Art Center, and the Andy Warhol Museum, among many others.
Most Popular James Fotopoulos Trailers
Total trailers found: 70
01 January 2012
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 by their capture.
01 January 2008
The story of an aspiring young Hollywood actor who, while hitchhiking to see his agent, is picked-up by a lecherous, cynical Cary Grant.
01 January 2015
A disgruntled veteran unable to adjust back into society justifies domestic terrorism by interpreting his actions with alien invasion.
01 January 2003
Jerusalem is the first of four videos (followed by Sublimation [2003], Conjunction [2003] and The Pearl [2004]) exploring inter-dimensional travel.
29 July 2018
The story of young sisters in the American Midwest left alone with their increasingly unstable mother while their father is fighting in the Civil War.
01 January 2000
Short film from James Fotopoulos, 16mm film (b&w).
01 January 2003
Video (color)
01 January 2002
"...the simplest and most beautiful of [Fotopoulos'] early video features, which simply follows the movements of a model whose body is (re)filmed so closely that she appears as abstract swirls of colour and video grain.
01 January 2001
Short film from James Fotopoulos
06 June 2003
A film by James Fotopoulos
01 January 2002
A digital poem of the flesh unfolding in near mathematical structural precision. The video’s first segment is a meditation upon the movements of a single female body.
01 January 2004
A low-fi, grimy, VHS, edited in-camera, apocalyptic feature finalizes the cycle of videos that began with Jerusalem (2003).
08 June 2003
Short film from James Fotopoulos
01 January 2000
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 beguilingly cross-cuts between a lovely young woman, uncomfortably waiting, and the sun-drenched outdoors.
01 January 2011
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 their relationship as if in a crude ancient play.
01 January 1999
16mm film (b&w/color)
12 June 2003
Short film from James Fotopoulos
01 January 2000
16mm film (b&w)
01 January 2003
Two of the female characters from Jerusalem (2003) appear in a new location: a black and white minimalist apartment.
01 April 2015
An actress living in New York performs an audition, then goes to meditation and winds up at a party of artists viewing a film.
01 January 2011
Written in 1993, Thick Comb was James Fotopoulos’ earliest unrealized script, about a criminal porn producer hunting down the world’s greatest lover for thieving an adult film’s production budget.
01 January 2003
Video (color)
12 August 2003
Short film from James Fotopoulos
01 January 2000
16mm film (color)
01 January 2004
Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.
01 January 2004
Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.
01 January 2001
Short film from James Fotopoulos, 16mm film (b&w), silent.
01 January 2003
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 professionals unravels after an unnamed accident physically and emotional traumatizes the wife.
16 July 2003
Short film from James Fotopoulos
01 January 2005
Deep blues. 30.40 is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante and filmmaker James Fotopoulos).
27 January 2026
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 plague upon the world.
01 January 2000
Short film from James Fotopoulos
03 March 2000
A man and woman embark on a sexual journey to detach mind from body. The relationship slowly grows into one of emotional domination, physical disease, abandonment and the creation of personal pornography.
01 January 2010
An adaptation of the 1886 musical “Alice in Wonderland: A Dream Play for Children” by Henry Saville Clark and Walter Slaughter, Fotopoulos’ feature length film propels the Clark/Slaughter score into the 21st century digital age.
01 January 1999
Short film from James Fotopoulos
01 January 2003
Part 12 of 12. 3m
01 January 2001
Short film from James Fotopoulos, 16mm film (color), mono.
01 January 2003
The Cypress Tree directed by James Fotopolous
01 January 1999
Short film from James Fotopoulos
01 January 1997
James Fotopoulos’ first feature film is a two and half hour endurance test about a lonely man’s decent into horror, mutilation and psychological collapse.
01 January 2002
Life in a rural industrial town: a teenage boy, his family, friends and failed attempt at love are investigated through stark black-and-white photography and static long takes.
01 January 2003
A video by James Fotopoulos
01 January 2003
A video by James Fotopoulos
01 January 2001
Part 1 of 5. B&W
01 January 2003
Part 9 of 12. 4m
04 May 2019
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 and cultural battles smashed sexual and political taboos in the United States — unleashing the counter-culture of the 1960s and introducing millions of young intellectuals to the most radical currents in literature, film, theater and politics.
12 June 2001
Christabel is an abstract interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s unfinished Gothic poem about female possession.
01 January 2000
Low-budget film about a lingerie model who keeps getting hooked up with the wrong guy.
01 January 2003
Part 5 of 12. 3m
01 January 2004
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 hand-scratched film-textured hotel room, genetically mutated men slowly driven mad in a white digital prison, the high contrast landscapes of Mars, and a futuristic tribe of a giant, an elf and a witch in their decaying suicide-home.
01 January 2002
2002, 2 min, sound
01 January 2003
Part 4 of 12. 3m
01 January 2003
Part 11 of 12. 3m
01 January 2003
Part 7 of 12. 4m
01 January 2003
Part 3 of 12. 3m
01 January 2003
Part 10 of 12. 3m
01 January 2003
Part 6 of 12. 3m
01 January 2003
Part 1 of 12. 4m
