James Fotopoulos Movies

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...

16mm film (b&w)

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...

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...

Short film from James Fotopoulos

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

Short film from James Fotopoulos

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

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

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

Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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