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James Fotopoulos (born 1976, Norridge, Illinois) is an independent filmmaker whose work is low-budget and rigorous, and consists of experimental narrative features, non-narrative shorts, and video installations.
JAMES FOTOPOULOS. The films of James Fotopoulos have screened widely including the Whitney Biennial, Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, Festival del Film Locarno, Walker Art Center, Museum of Modern Art, Andy Warhol Museum, Museum of Art and Design, Museum of the Moving Image, MOMA PS1, etc.
James Fotopoulos has been compared to the hand crafting avant gardists like Stan Brakhage, Malcolm Le Grice and Kurt Kren, and revered by top critics as an artist whose films display strong atmospheres and deal with sexual and psychological power struggles. He has also directed over 100 short films.
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- Director, Producer, Writer
- Norridge, Illinois, USA
- James Fotopoulos
James Fotopoulos is a filmmaker who began production on his first feature 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 prolific body of feature-length and short films.
Mar 10, 2020 · Full About List – James Fotopoulos. Films. As screenwriter, director and producer unless noted otherwise. 2021. Parade (2min 53sec, color) Faustus (3min 56sec, b/w & color) At the Present Time (1min 27sec, color) The Lament ( 3min 14sec, color) 2020.
James Fotopoulos has been compared to the hand crafting avant gardists like Stan Brakhage, Malcolm Le Grice and Kurt Kren, and revered by top critics as an artist whose films display strong atmospheres and deal with sexual and psychological power struggles. He has also directed over 100 short films.
" ‘The films of James Fotopoulos examine heady esthetic and existential concerns through a unique hybrid of contemplative, delicate avant-garde formal effects and brutal low-budget body-horror, set within meticulously plotted structures that eschew typical experimental serendipity in favor of calculated auteurist rigor.
