Films of James Fotopoulos

Working across a variety of film materials, animation, sculpture, and drawing, filmmaker James Fotopoulos has created a distinctive body of experimental work that draws from literature, mythology, personal memory, and art history. 

Esophagus

The origins of the universe.

Dignity

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 by their capture. While their interrogations proceed the two men struggle to come to terms with their suffering and impending death.

Jerusalem

A group of young actors inhabit an empty apartment and each cast member recounts painful personal life episodes.

Pinocchio

An adaptation of Carlo Collodi's "Pinocchio.”

Final Obscura

A woman named Sonja’s past, present and future.

Two Girls

The story of young sisters in the American Midwest left alone with their increasingly unstable mother while their father is fighting in the Civil War. The film traces the girls’ naturally fraught sibling dynamic and the ways that their father’s absence ignites their imagination. When they meet a stranger in the forest they become enchanted by a world of creative wor...Read More

Celestial Visions

The micro and the macro.

The Ant Hill

When a cult leader’s vision of the end of the world is not fulfilled he begins the systematic humiliation and destruction of his followers.

Timon

An adaptation of Timon of Athens from the works of Richard Cumberland, Lucian of Samosata, Herman Melville, William Painter, Plutarch, Thomas Shadwell and William Shakespeare.

Hymn

A poem of the flesh.

The Sky Song

In the old west a man’s family is slain by his doppelganger: Mr. Lamb. The man’s quest for revenge takes him on a journey to reconcile the horrors of his past – illness, murder, lost love and war.