James Otis Trailers
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"James Otis" is not yet a pseudonym employed by a coalition of passionate dilettantes. He remains a real person, an amalgam of spirit and flesh. He loves dark chocolate, the prose of Samuel Johnson and the music of Shostakovich. He cannot abide flavored coffees, Hemingway or Richard Strauss. Acutely aware of binocular vision, at the age of seven he undertook a program of eye exercises to strengthen the facility. At eleven, meditating on numbers, he succeeded in visualizing 23 distinct points. While a teenager, Otis blindfolded himself, seeing not a photon for nine days. Shortly thereafter he began making movies.
Most Popular James Otis Trailers
Total trailers found: 30
01 January 1979
A Letraset composition quickly giving brief voice to varieties of synchronization. Hand made image, hand made sound.
01 January 1992
A terse alloyment of the elements shifts consciousness from subject to object. Purgation unto stillness condenses movement from through to of.
07 July 1997
A film by James Otis
16 September 1978
A film by James Otis.
02 February 1992
Mount Sopris and the Cattle Creek Anticline is a hyperreal vision of the dramatic alterations of moue
16 September 1976
A film by James Otis.
01 January 1976
"A Tree for the Angel-men." One tree one afternoon.
01 January 1997
Variations on a theme from "Darwin in the Galapagos." A challenge to pre-attentive visual processing!
01 January 1994
World Premiere at Spectacle Theatre on June 13, 2025.
01 January 1981
One tree per frame, each from a different place on the surface of a doughnut-shaped parametric space, cooperate to rotate continuously, slowingly from the one- to the two-dimensional.
01 January 1980
A casting up off of hands ironically employs a composition of renunciation. "Foregone Conclusion" for the dame the world as butterfly is perceived "Edit Synch" for the little boy down the land as crystal abstracted "Concluding Cone" and as rainbow trout for the master pondered.
01 January 2011
A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.
01 January 1996
William Sheldon's crackpot body typing, based on the superficially convincing fiction of universal endo-, ecto- and mesomorphic components of the human form, gave each person three numbers from 1 to 7, one for each of these three components, interpretable as coordinates of a point in a cubic parameter space.
01 January 1981
All is inevitably one. With the golden mean as seed, the fruit is 10 sided. Not "?'s", but "?s'" in homage to Ken, who almost offhandedly wished for wheels within wheels.
01 January 1979
Disturbing hints of the inexplicable clear their throats in preparation for consciousness. Hand made image and sound; what you see is very nearly what you hear.
01 January 1999
In this poignant comedy about the pickle of incarnation, the soul, thwarted in its yearning for union with God, recognizing completeness closer to home, is reconciled corporeal existence.
01 January 1980
Super8 James Otis film from 1980.
01 January 1981
Computer generated. "With all the grace and flair of an elegant proof." - Carol Mickett. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
01 January 1997
"Eighteen years of dinners are condensed in this affectionate family portrait which grew out of a family tradition of taking slides of holiday dinner posing.
01 January 1984
How may be unknown, but attaining the goal is certain. Dichotomous branching fractals incorporate carefully shepherded randomness.
01 January 2001
This film I found and found I could not change without degrading, too stunning was the as yet unknown hobbyist's joy in mixing potent, posed and oddly distant pictures from his private life with the symbols of small town identity politics Civic leaders of Boulder, Colorado organized the Pay Dirt Pow Wow in 1934 to bring miners and farmers together and lift their spirits with a community festival.
01 January 1982
Let's pretend that the friction between mono- and dicotyledonous forms (between, say, "lilies tulips the hyacinth" and "fruit blossoms the briar rose the passion flower" or, as here, English ivy) generates green.
01 January 1996
A delicate window study. "Outside, spring had come to Minnesota, while in here?"
01 January 1996
Coming to grips with landscape via pseudo-hyper-stereoscopy. Your eyes are two-and-a-half inches apart, giving viscerally felt depth to 25 feet.
10 July 1981
Into my hands fell a 20-minute exhortation to find the right job after high school. Struck by its fierce redundancy, I undertook a distillation, editing the optical track, aiming for conversational cadence, choosing image only when silent.
01 January 1986
The filmmaker courts the muse of computer art. At the gods' demand Calypso grants Odysseus freedom, but gives a cloak designed to drown.
01 January 1997
Pseudo-hyper-stereoscopic view of one tree over three years. Shimmering life in flexible time, an antenna alert to whose vibrations?
01 January 1994
Alternating between two cameras three feet apart, shooting black on each to match the image on the other, created in-camera A and B rolls for pseudo-hyper-stereoscopic view of two trees.
01 January 2002
Upbeat, fast-paced, crowd-pleasing investigation of original sin and marketing, based on a South African apple juice commercial.
01 January 1984
Eggs, mountains, thistles and ultimately a glorious burning bush, pulsing to a contrapuntal samba, harboring a bit of the surrounding void, the human heart.
