James Fotopoulos

Template:Short description 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.<ref name="Other Cinema">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He began creating his film projects as a teenager in 1993, and as of 2012, has made over 100 films and videos.<ref name="The Film Journal"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Partial filmography

• Zero (1997)
• Drowning (2000)
• Migrating Forms (2000)
• Insect (2001)
• Christabel (2001)
• Consumed (in 5-parts) (2001)
• Back Against the Wall (2002)
• Families (2002)
• Hymn (2002)
• The River (2002)
• The Swan (2002)
• The Nest (2003)
• Conjunction (2003)
• Jerusalem (2003)
• Sublimation (2003)
• The Fountain (2003)

• The Hemispheres (2003)
• Esophagus (2004)
• The Ant Hill (2004)
• The Pearl (2004)
• 30.40 (2005)
• Shattered (2005)
• Spine Face (2005)
• The Mirror Mask (2005)
• The Hard-Boiled Egg (2006)
• Trinity (2006)
• Go Back and Watch It (2007)
• Knot 1 (2007)
• Knot 2 (2007)
• Knot 3 (2007)
• Knot 4 (2007)

• Knot 5 (2007)
• Knot 6 (2007)
• Knot 7 (2007)
• Knot 8 (2007)
• Sleep Weep (The Zookeeper) (2007)
• Tape 1 (2007)
• The Discovery (2007)
• The Sky Song (2007)
• Untitled (Thanks, Get in...) (2008)
• Surprise! (2009)
• Alice in Wonderland (2010)
• Thick Comb (2011)
• Chimera (2011)
• Dignity (2012)
• THERE (2014)
• The Given (2015)
• Two Girls (2018)

Recognition

Fotopoulos' work was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial<ref>Whitney website Template:Webarchive</ref> and he has collaborated with media artist Cory Arcangel.

The Film Journal praises Fotopoulos, writing he is "one of cinema's most unique voices, a filmmaker of uncompromising vision."<ref name="The Film Journal">Template:Cite news</ref>

Of Fotopoulos' film Migrating Forms, Amy Taubin of The Village Voice wrote that while it was not a pleasurable experience, the film stayed with her most vividly as a "kind of stripped-down Eraserhead", which offered "a formal purity and obsessive power that's all too rare these days".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Awards and nominations

• 2000 won Best Feature at New York Underground Film Festival for Migrating Forms<ref name="UFJ 2">Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2005 Creative Capital Grant Film/Video [1]Template:Dead link

Personal

James Fotopoulos was raised in Norridge, Illinois. His father was a policeman and his mother a hairdresser. He displayed artistic aptitude as a child and devoted his attention to filmmaking at age 15. His 1997 film Zero, shot when he was 18 years old during his first year as a film student at Columbia College Chicago, was his first feature.<ref name="New York Press">Template:Cite news</ref> In 1998 James founded his production company Fantasma Inc.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Reflist

External links

• Official website
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