James Fotopoulos Movie Trailers
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Dignity Trailer (2012)
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.
Untitled (Thanks. Get in...) Trailer (2008)
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.
There Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
A disgruntled veteran unable to adjust back into society justifies domestic terrorism by interpreting his actions with alien invasion.
Jerusalem Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
Jerusalem is the first of four videos (followed by Sublimation [2003], Conjunction [2003] and The Pearl [2004]) exploring inter-dimensional travel.
Two Girls Trailer (2018)
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.
The River Trailer (2002)
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.
Hymn Trailer (2002)
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.
The Pearl Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
A low-fi, grimy, VHS, edited in-camera, apocalyptic feature finalizes the cycle of videos that began with Jerusalem (2003).
The Sun Trailer (2000)
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.
Chimera Trailer (2011)
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.
Sublimation Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
Two of the female characters from Jerusalem (2003) appear in a new location: a black and white minimalist apartment.
The Given Trailer (2015)
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.
Thick Comb Trailer (2011)
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.
The Circle 1 Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Short film from James Fotopoulos, 16mm film (b&w), silent.
The Nest Trailer (2003)
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.
30.40 Trailer (2005)
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).
The Golden Sarcophaga Trailer (2026)
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.
Migrating Forms Trailer (2000)
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.
Alice in Wonderland Trailer (2010)
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.
The Circle 2 Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Short film from James Fotopoulos, 16mm film (color), mono.
Zero Trailer (1997)
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.
Families Trailer (2002)
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.
Barney's Wall Trailer (2019)
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.
Christabel Trailer (2001)
12 June 2001
Christabel is an abstract interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s unfinished Gothic poem about female possession.
Back Against the Wall Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
Low-budget film about a lingerie model who keeps getting hooked up with the wrong guy.
Esophagus Trailer (2004)
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.