James Fotopoulos Movies

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

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...

A film by James Fotopoulos

Christabel is an abstract interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s unfinished Gothic poem about female possession. Adhering to the...

Short film from James Fotopoulos

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...

Life in a rural industrial town: a teenage boy, his family, friends and failed attempt at love are investigated through stark black-and-white...

New experimental short from James Fotopoulos.

Video (color)

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...

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

Part 3 of 5. Color

Short film from James Fotopoulos

16mm film (b&w/color)

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...

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...

Part 1 of 5. B&W

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.

Part 5 of 5. B&W