James Fotopoulos Movies

A man and woman embark on a sexual journey to detach mind from body. The relationship slowly grows into one of emotional domination, physical...

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

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

A digital poem of the flesh unfolding in near mathematical structural precision. The video’s first segment is a meditation upon the movements...

Low-budget film about a lingerie model who keeps getting hooked up with the wrong guy.

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...

16mm film (b&w)

A disgruntled veteran unable to adjust back into society justifies domestic terrorism by interpreting his actions with alien invasion.

Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.

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...

Short film from James Fotopoulos

An adaptation of the 1886 musical “Alice in Wonderland: A Dream Play for Children” by Henry Saville Clark and Walter Slaughter,...

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...

Video portrait by James Fotopoulos.

Short film from James Fotopoulos

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...

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

A film by James Fotopoulos

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

Written in 1993, Thick Comb was James Fotopoulos’ earliest unrealized script, about a criminal porn producer hunting down the world’s...