Film director James Otis: biography, career, and where to

On Your Own

James Otis, James Otis

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, editing the optical track, aiming for conversational cadence, choosing image only when silent.

On Your Own

1981

O Places! O Trees!

James Otis

A film by James Otis

O Places! O Trees!

1997

Family Dinners

James Otis

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

Family Dinners

1997

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Toroidal Forest

James Otis

One tree per frame, each from a different place on the surface of a doughnut-shaped parametric space, cooperate to rotate continuously, slowingly from the one- to the two-dimensional. After a pause accelerating counter rotations attain an approximation of a form of infinite dimension.

Toroidal Forest

2021

Jacob's Ladder

James Otis, James Otis

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 wheels within wheels. Breathtaking, mesmerizing, deeply satisfying.

Jacob's Ladder

1981

Mount Sopris and the Cattle Creek Anticline

James Otis, James Otis

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

Mount Sopris and the Cattle Creek Anticline

1992