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The Ant Hill
When a cult leader’s vision of the end of the world is not fulfilled he beings the systematic humiliation and destruction of his followers. The derelict play unfolds on a barren stage with bursts of animation, field recordings of sound, alien creatures and dime store costumes – a high school production aesthetic of the most extreme nature.
2004, digital video, 60min, color, sound stereo
"The Ant Hill, the latest James Fotopoulos thing. Trading his abject ooze for an almost classical play form, Ant Hill recounts the rise and fall of a messiah. Lensed with a very lo-fi camcorder trained on a less-than-bare-bones set of folding chairs, the movie frames one mulleted man as he evolves from street clothes and monogamy to fakey robe, beard, and harem, with copious interjections of nude, wriggling bodies. It's as rich with ambition as anything the director has done, with quotational acting, camera and microphone noise mitigations, and odd spurts of animations... "
- The Village Voice
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