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James Otis

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Movies Made By James Otis (8)

Ash and Apple (1994)

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 pseudo-hyper-stereoscopic view of two trees. Natural lighting cooperated. ...

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Rot Ligh (1992)

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

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Calypso's Cloak (1986)

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 constriction of Schubert's "Das Wandern" paces an emerging imposition of grid upon randomness. Preserved b ...

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On Your Own (1981)

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. Preserved by th ...

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Jacob's Ladder (1981)

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. ...

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Toroidal Forest (1981)

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 ...

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Gridrose (1981)

Computer generated. "With all the grace and flair of an elegant proof." - Carol Mickett. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016. ...

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