James Fotopoulos

Known for DirectingBorn 1976-01-01 (age 50)Norridge - Illinois - USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Nest

Alice in Wonderland

Migrating Forms

Back Against the Wall

Christabel

Zero

Jerusalem

The Golden Sarcophaga

Final Obscura

Barney's Wall

Two Girls

There

The Given

Dignity

Chimera

Thick Comb

Untitled (Thanks. Get in...)

30.40

Places

Monroe Blues

The Pearl

Esophagus

Harry’s Passion

The Glass House

The Catacombs

Leviathan

The Fountain

The Cypress Tree

Sublimation

The Exiled Bird

Crescent Moon

Faces

Sea Storm

Knowing and Being 1

The Watchtower

The Hemispheres

Hidden Objects 1

Hidden Objects 2

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