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The film and video work of James Fotopoulos has been shown internationally at many festivals and sites including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Underground Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Walker Art Center and the Andy Warhol Museum, among others. In 1998 Fotopoulos founded Fantasma, Inc. for the production of his second feature film Migrating Forms (1999). In 2002 he had a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives and was exhibited in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. In 2005 he received a Creative Capital Grant for his in-progress interdisciplinary epic on the life of Richard Nixon, published the first of many books of drawings The Lime Book, and completed an installation for the 2005 Contour Biennial for Video Art. In 2006 with Grove Press founder Barney Rosset he created an experimental video biography on Rosset and an adaptation of an unpublished screenplay by Eugène Ionesco, of which the latter premiered at the New York Museum of Modern Art. In 2008 he directed two videos based on screenplays by artist Raymond Pettibon. He currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His most recent piece is a feature length video and 245 drawing adaptation of the 1886 Henry Saville Clark and Walter Slaughter musical Alice in Wonderland (2010).