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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...

World Premiere at Spectacle Theatre on June 13, 2025.

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

Mount Sopris and the Cattle Creek Anticline is a hyperreal vision of the dramatic alterations of mountain light and atmosphere

Super8 James Otis film from 1980.

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...

A film by James Otis.

Variations on a theme from "Darwin in the Galapagos." A challenge to pre-attentive visual processing! An alchemical reflux!

Just across the road from the anticline

"Eighteen years of dinners are condensed in this affectionate family portrait which grew out of a family tradition of taking slides of holiday dinner...

Eggs, mountains, thistles and ultimately a glorious burning bush, pulsing to a contrapuntal samba, harboring a bit of the surrounding void, the human...

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

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

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

Let's pretend that the friction between mono- and dicotyledonous forms (between, say, "lilies tulips the hyacinth" and "fruit blossoms the briar rose...

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

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

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...