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James Otis

Director · 35 credits · 2 in highly-rated films

Best known for Promised Land (2004)

Directed movies (30 total, ranked by score)

  1. Ein Baum fur die Engelmanner

    1976

    1

  2. Bagatelle

    1979

    2

  3. Observations in Natural Philosophy

    1997

    3

  4. Drilled Letter Color Cone

    1976

    4

  5. Bwong Bwong

    1978

    5

  6. Toroidal Forest

    1981

    6

  7. The Last Bite

    1994

    7

  8. Jacobs' Ladder

    1981

    8

  9. Triptych

    1980

    9

  10. No Art of Memory

    1979

    10

  11. He Waited for Days

    1980

    11

  12. Vervielfältigung

    1996

    12

  13. On Your Own

    1981

    13

  14. O Places! O Trees!

    1997

    14

  15. Family Dinners

    1997

    15

  16. Upper Blue Lake

    1996

    16

  17. Deposit of Faith

    1984

    17

  18. Easter Blues

    1996

    18

  19. Calypso's Cloak

    1986

    19

  20. Gridrose

    1981

    20

  21. From the Family of Eggs

    1984

    21

  22. Hexes

    1982

    22

  23. Englewood Cottonwood

    1997

    23

  24. (the daily compromise of) My Enmeshment

    1999

    24

  25. We and I

    2001

    25

  26. Mount Sopris and the Cattle Creek Anticline

    1992

    26

  27. Rot Ligh

    1992

    27

  28. Ash and Apple

    1994

    28

  29. Common Knowledge

    2002

    29

  30. Carter Jackson's Cottonwood

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    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Sep 1, 2026.