Not nightmares, but dark dreams. Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, James Fotopoulos forged a singular cinematic language where images become passages into inner states, created through instinct, shaped by experimentation, and an exploration of the unseen layers beneath the surface.

The program presents 14 works, tracking a period in which Fotopoulos explored cinema as a space between the external world and the hidden depths of the mind. Bodies appear and dissolve, spaces lose their stability, and sound moves through the image as a physical presence. Through gestures, sensations, and transformations, these works reveal cinema as a surface where invisible tensions become visible.

Using varying techniques and forms, Fotopoulos explores the unstable threshold between body and image: grain, video noise, silence, darkness, and sudden flashes of light become elements of a cinema that is both tactile and elusive, searching for what lies beneath the visible.

Developed in close collaboration with James Fotopoulos, this program offers an encounter with one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive voices. We are deeply grateful to James for his generosity, trust, and enthusiasm in making this program possible.