James Otis Movies

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

All is inevitably one. With the golden mean as seed, the fruit is 10 sided. Not "?'s", but "?s'" in homage to Ken, who almost offhandedly wished for...

Coming to grips with landscape via pseudo-hyper-stereoscopy. Your eyes are two-and-a-half inches apart, giving viscerally felt depth to 25 feet. If...

A film by James Otis.

Pseudo-hyper-stereoscopic view of one tree over three years. Shimmering life in flexible time, an antenna alert to whose vibrations?

World Premiere at Spectacle Theatre on June 13, 2025.

The filmmaker courts the muse of computer art. At the gods' demand Calypso grants Odysseus freedom, but gives a cloak designed to drown. The melodic...

Disturbing hints of the inexplicable clear their throats in preparation for consciousness. Hand made image and sound; what you see is very nearly...

"Having moved from mountains to Denver I attempted to come to terms with the neighborhood." -James Otis

A terse alloyment of the elements shifts consciousness from subject to object. Purgation unto stillness condenses movement from through to of.

A delicate window study. "Outside, spring had come to Minnesota, while in here?"

A casting up off of hands ironically employs a composition of renunciation. "Foregone Conclusion" for the dame the world as butterfly is perceived ...

Into my hands fell a 20-minute exhortation to find the right job after high school. Struck by its fierce redundancy, I undertook a distillation,...

Just across the road from the anticline

A film by James Otis.

Alternating between two cameras three feet apart, shooting black on each to match the image on the other, created in-camera A and B rolls for...

Super8 James Otis film from 1980.

"A Tree for the Angel-men." One tree one afternoon.

Upbeat, fast-paced, crowd-pleasing investigation of original sin and marketing, based on a South African apple juice commercial. The sound track is...

In this poignant comedy about the pickle of incarnation, the soul, thwarted in its yearning for union with God, recognizing completeness closer to...