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...

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

Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.

16mm film (b&w)

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

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...

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

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

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

16mm film (b&w/color)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Video (color)

A film by James Fotopoulos

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

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