James Fotopoulos Movies

  • 2000
    Drowning

    Drowning

    Drowning

    02000HD

    16mm film (color)

    Drowning
  • 2019
    Barney's Wall

    Barney's Wall

    Barney's Wall

    02019HD

    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...

    Barney's Wall
  • 2000
    Escape

    Escape

    Escape

    02000HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos

    Escape
  • 2003
    Sublimation

    Sublimation

    Sublimation

    02003HD

    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...

    Sublimation
  • 1997
    Zero

    Zero

    Zero

    21997HD

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

    Zero
  • 2011
    Thick Comb

    Thick Comb

    Thick Comb

    02011HD

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

    Thick Comb
  • 2010
    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    6.72010HD

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

    Alice in Wonderland
  • 2002
    The Swan

    The Swan

    The Swan

    02002HD

    Video portrait by James Fotopoulos.

    The Swan
  • 2003
    The Glass House

    The Glass House

    The Glass House

    02003HD

    The Glass House
  • 2005
    30.40

    30.40

    30.40

    02005HD

    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...

    30.40
  • 2002
    Families

    Families

    Families

    02002HD

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

    Families
  • 2003
    The Watchtower

    The Watchtower

    The Watchtower

    02003HD

    Short film from James Fotopoulos

    The Watchtower
  • 2000
    The Sun

    The Sun

    The Sun

    02000HD

    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...

    The Sun
  • 2004
    Esophagus

    Esophagus

    Esophagus

    02004HD

    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...

    Esophagus
  • 2011
    Chimera

    Chimera

    Chimera

    02011HD

    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...

    Chimera
  • 2000
    The Vanished

    The Vanished

    The Vanished

    02000HD

    16mm film (b&w)

    The Vanished
  • 2004
    Monroe Blues

    Monroe Blues

    Monroe Blues

    02004HD

    Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.

    Monroe Blues
  • 2003
    The Exiled Bird

    The Exiled Bird

    The Exiled Bird

    02003HD

    Video (color)

    The Exiled Bird
  • 1970
    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    01970HD

    A film by James Fotopoulos

    Leviathan
  • 2002
    The Scythe

    The Scythe

    The Scythe

    02002HD

    2002, 2 min, sound

    The Scythe