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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 their relationship as if in a crude ancient play. Through an array of text, sculptures, drawings, animations and monologues, alternate interpretations of the character's histories and myths unfold. |
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An adaptation of the 1886 musical Alice in Wonderland: A Dream Play for Children by Henry Saville Clark and Walter Slaughter. James Fotopoulos’ feature length film Alice in Wonderland, inspired by a 2003 Lewis Carroll photography exhibit, propels the Clark/Slaughter musical score into the 21st century digital age. Sculptures, drawings, text, and original music ... |
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Dashing leading man of the forties picks up a stag model hitchhiker on the Boulevard one night in West Hollywood during the 1960s. The conversation as they get stuck in traffic involves the young model’s recognizing the star, asking advice and triggering a psychedelic discourse on acting for the camera and the metaphysics of fame on the big screen. |
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In the old west a man’s family is slain by his doppelganger: Mr. Lamb. The man’s quest for revenge takes him on a journey to reconcile the horrors of his past – illness, murder, lost love and war. The story’s action is told through stilted theatrical black box performances, crude CGI special effects, Halloween costumes and primitive drawings of animals, plants, sex, baseball, ... |
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As the 2005 short video Spine Face refined the themes of The Pearl (2004), Trinity expands upon the aforementioned short’s exploration into the apocryphal texts of the Bible and the martyrdom of St. Peter. Originally began as a piece on the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt, Germany, the video, while retaining some of the original concepts, ... |
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The Mirror Mask was created as a commission for the 2005 Contour Biennial of Video Art and was originally exhibited in a multi-channel format with drawings. This feature-length edit was made simultaneously. Working from the Biennial’s theme of feminine power, the video’s exploration uses symbols from both Flemish and Egyptian art reinterpreted through CGI, latex ... |
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When a cult leader’s vision of the end of the world is not fulfilled he beings the systematic humiliation and destruction of his followers. The derelict play unfolds on a barren stage with bursts of animation, field recordings of sound, alien creatures and dime store costumes – a high school production aesthetic of the most extreme nature. |
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A low-fi, grimy, VHS, edited in-camera, apocalyptic feature finalizes the cycle of videos that began with Jerusalem (2003). Two of the actresses from the first video remain but now joined with a supporting cast of public access outcasts. Using sculptures, drawings, paintings, crude animations, puppets and heavily self-conscious performance – the final piece attempts to string ... |
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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 hand-scratched film-textured hotel room, genetically mutated men slowly driven mad in a white digital prison, the high contrast landscapes of Mars, and a futuristic tribe of a giant, an elf and a witch in their decaying ... |
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Jerusalem is the first of four videos (followed by Sublimation [2003], Conjunction [2003] and The Pearl [2004]) exploring inter-dimensional travel. In this inaugural episode a group of young actors inhabit an empty apartment, their behavior taped and edited in-camera. An analog solarization technique captures their rituals of improvised dance, frozen poses and trimming of ... |
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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 illustrate their psychological probing, the ladies perform basic physical repetitions and frozen poses while being captured on video and re-lensed through low-fi cyan solariziations. Layered stereo monologues speak of their ... |
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Filmed in saturated colors on out-of-date film stocks with an aggressive soundtrack, the story of The Nest is told - The marriage of two young professionals unravels after an unnamed accident physically and emotional traumatizes the wife. Government agents, shadowy investigators and transgender beings appear, trying to solve the nervous-breakdown- ... |
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Life in a rural industrial town: a teenage boy, his family, friends and failed attempt at love are investigated through stark black-and-white photography and static long takes. Filmed in a fusion of authentic and staged documentation, with robotic performances by actors and non-actors, the piece mediates on the mundane existence of human and animal life. |
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A digital poem of the flesh unfolding in near mathematical structural precision. The video's first segment is a meditation upon the movements of a single female body. The second section focuses on the physical mechanics of a male and female couple. The human footage is augmented with superimposed abstractions, flickering lights, paintings, sound waves and sculptures. |
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Christabel is an abstract interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s unfinished Gothic poem about female possession. Adhering to the poem’s structure the film is presented in four parts – Two digital video half hour segments and then two short 16mm conclusions. The contemporary relevance of the poem’s symbols and themes is underlined using performance ... |
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A black-and-white triptych of personal destruction following a stripper June as she drifts in and out of the lives of three shadowy men. The first is Levey, an intellectually gifted burnout living in a motel, reading books and playing chess. His night terrors, blackouts, paranoia, rage and the sexual advances from his creepy friend Ed force June to leave. She ends up ... |
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A biological-horror-love story shot in murky black-and-white with a fuzzy crude soundtrack. The tale unfolds under a cat’s gaze: a man and woman repeatedly meet for un-erotic sex in a dark apartment. With each new rendezvous the encounters grow more sexually depraved. As the power struggle between the two lovers progresses, physical deformities grow from ... |
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James Fotopoulos’ first feature film is a two and half hour endurance test about a lonely man’s decent into horror, mutilation and psychological collapse. The lines of reality and fantasy blur when the man’s hand-tinted primordial dreams of humanoid sex and violence manifest in his everyday reality as cancer, abuse and mannequin love. This nightmare universe drags the ... |
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