James Fotopoulos

James Fotopoulos

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.

  • Title: James Fotopoulos
  • Popularity: 0.84
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1976-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Norridge - Illinois - USA
  • Homepage: http://jamesfotopoulos.com/
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James Fotopoulos Movies

  • 2019
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    Barney's Wall

    Barney's Wall

    1 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Two Girls

    Two Girls

    1 2018 HD

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

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  • 2018
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    Two Girls

    Two Girls

    1 2018 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    Back Against the Wall

    Back Against the Wall

    6.3 2002 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    Back Against the Wall

    Back Against the Wall

    6.3 2002 HD

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

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  • 2000
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    Escape

    Escape

    1 2000 HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos

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  • 1999
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    A room

    A room

    1 1999 HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos

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  • 2001
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    Insect

    Insect

    1 2001 HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos

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  • 2001
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    The Circle 1

    The Circle 1

    1 2001 HD

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

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  • 2001
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    The circle 2

    The circle 2

    1 2001 HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos, 16mm film (color), mono.

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  • 2000
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    Breathe

    Breathe

    1 2000 HD

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

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  • 1999
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    Two Cats

    Two Cats

    1 1999 HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos

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  • 2003
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    The Glass House

    The Glass House

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2002
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    Families

    Families

    1 2002 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    Zero

    Zero

    2 1997 HD

    James Fotopoulos’ first feature film is a two and half hour endurance test about a lonely man’s decent into horror, mutilation and...

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  • 2000
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    Migrating Forms

    Migrating Forms

    6 2000 HD

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

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  • 2005
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    30.40

    30.40

    1 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    The Sun

    The Sun

    1 2000 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    There

    There

    1 2015 HD

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

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  • 2015
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    There

    There

    1 2015 HD

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

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  • 2015
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    There

    There

    1 2015 HD

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

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  • 2001
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    Christabel

    Christabel

    5.7 2001 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    the catacombs

    the catacombs

    1 1970 HD

    A film by James Fotopoulos

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  • 1970
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    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    1 1970 HD

    A film by James Fotopoulos

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  • 2003
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    The Fountain

    The Fountain

    1 2003 HD

    A film by James Fotopoulos

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  • 1970
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    The Cypress Tree

    The Cypress Tree

    1 1970 HD

    The Cypress Tree directed by James Fotopolous

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  • 2003
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    Jerusalem

    Jerusalem

    2 2003 HD

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

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  • 2003
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    Jerusalem

    Jerusalem

    2 2003 HD

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

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  • 2003
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    Jerusalem

    Jerusalem

    2 2003 HD

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

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  • 2003
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    Jerusalem

    Jerusalem

    2 2003 HD

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

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  • 2008
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    Untitled (Thanks. Get in...)

    Untitled (Thanks. Get in...)

    1 2008 HD

    The story of an aspiring young Hollywood actor who, while hitchhiking to see his agent, is picked-up by a lecherous, cynical Cary Grant.

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  • 2010
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    6.5 2010 HD

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

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  • 2011
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    Chimera

    Chimera

    1 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Chimera

    Chimera

    1 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Thick Comb

    Thick Comb

    1 2011 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Dignity

    Dignity

    1 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Thick Comb

    Thick Comb

    1 2011 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Dignity

    Dignity

    1 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2002
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    Hymn

    Hymn

    1 2002 HD

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

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  • 2004
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    Places

    Places

    1 2004 HD

    Video (color)

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  • 1999
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    Growth

    Growth

    1 1999 HD

    16mm film (b&w/color)

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  • 2003
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    Sublimation

    Sublimation

    1 2003 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    Monroe Blues

    Monroe Blues

    1 2004 HD

    Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.

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  • 2000
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    Drowning

    Drowning

    1 2000 HD

    16mm film (color)

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  • 2000
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    The Vanished

    The Vanished

    1 2000 HD

    16mm film (b&w)

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  • 2004
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    The Pearl

    The Pearl

    1 2004 HD

    A low-fi, grimy, VHS, edited in-camera, apocalyptic feature finalizes the cycle of videos that began with Jerusalem (2003). Two of the actresses from...

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  • 2004
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    Esophagus

    Esophagus

    1 2004 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    The Exiled Bird

    The Exiled Bird

    1 2003 HD

    Video (color)

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  • 2001
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    Consumed

    Consumed

    1 2001 HD

    5-parts, (Consumed 1-5), 16mm film (b&w & color)

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  • 2003
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    The Nest

    The Nest

    1 2003 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Jerusalem

    Jerusalem

    2 2003 HD

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

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  • 2004
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    Harry’s Passion

    Harry’s Passion

    1 2004 HD

    Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.

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  • 2003
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    Crescent Moon

    Crescent Moon

    1 2003 HD

    Video (color)

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  • 2015
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    The Given

    The Given

    1 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    The Given

    The Given

    1 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    The Given

    The Given

    1 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Faces

    Faces

    1 2003 HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos

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  • 2003
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    Sea Storm

    Sea Storm

    1 2003 HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos

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  • 2003
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    Knowing and Being 1

    Knowing and Being 1

    1 2003 HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos

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  • 2003
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    The Watchtower

    The Watchtower

    1 2003 HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos

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  • 2002
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    The River

    The River

    1 2002 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    The Swan

    The Swan

    1 2002 HD

    Video portrait by James Fotopoulos.

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