James Otis is associated with: Common Knowledge
Upbeat, fast-paced, crowd-pleasing investigation of original sin and marketing, based on a South African apple juice commercial. The sound track is an obsessively synchronized mad marimba version of the old mission hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains. ...
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This film I found and found I could not change without degrading, too stunning was the as yet unknown hobbyist's joy in mixing potent, posed and oddly distant pictures from his private life with the symbols of small town identity politics Civic leaders of ...
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In this poignant comedy about the pickle of incarnation, the soul, thwarted in its yearning for union with God, recognizing completeness closer to home, is reconciled corporeal existence. "I found myself needing to engage with emulsion without using a len ...
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"Having moved from mountains to Denver I attempted to come to terms with the neighborhood. ...
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"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. ...
Watch NowVariations on a theme from "Darwin in the Galapagos." A challenge to pre-attentive visual processing! An alchemical reflux! ...
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Pseudo-hyper-stereoscopic view of one tree over three years. Shimmering life in flexible time, an antenna alert to whose vibrations? ...
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William Sheldon's crackpot body typing, based on the superficially convincing fiction of universal endo-, ecto- and mesomorphic components of the human form, gave each person three numbers from 1 to 7, one for each of these three components, interpretable ...
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A delicate window study. "Outside, spring had come to Minnesota, while in here? ...
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Mount Sopris and the Cattle Creek Anticline is a hyperreal vision of the dramatic alterations of mountain light and atmosphere ...
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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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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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Eggs, mountains, thistles and ultimately a glorious burning bush, pulsing to a contrapuntal samba, harboring a bit of the surrounding void, the human heart. Computer generated. ...
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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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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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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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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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A casting up off of hands ironically employs a composition of renunciation. "Foregone Conclusion" for the dame the world as butterfly is perceived "Edit Synch" for the little boy down the land as crystal abstracted "Concluding Cone" and as rainbow trout ...
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Disturbing hints of the inexplicable clear their throats in preparation for consciousness. Hand made image and sound; what you see is very nearly what you hear. ...
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A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by. ...
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