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Gregory J.Markopoulos

Gregory J. Markopoulos (March 12, 1928 - November 12, 1992) was an American experimental filmmaker. Born in Toledo, Ohio to Greek immigrant parents, Markopoulos began making 8 mm films at an early age. He attended USC Film School in the late 1940s, and went on to become a co-founder — with Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage and others — of the New American Cinema movement. He was as well a contributor to Film Culture magazine, and an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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NOTHINGTOSEENESS: All or Nothing

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 30/11/2021 - 06:20

“You cannot apply the principles of painting to a medium that is not painting.” (Paul Sharits).

Film has laws of its own, but along with the other arts in the period around 1960 it searched for certain “zero points” that didn't revolve around nothing, but the whole. This three-part film programme, curated by Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit, includes works from the period between 1958 and 2021 – by Stephanie Barber, Yves-André Delubac, Hollis Frampton, Jorge Lorenzo, Ernst Schmidt Jr., Aldo Tambellini, Joyce Wieland and many more. It also offers rare insight into Gregory Markopoulos’s cinematic life’s work ENIAIOS (1947–91), presented by the film artist Robert Beavers.

Dates:
Saturday, December 4, 2021 - 17:00
Venue:
Akademie der Künste - Berlín, Germany
“The gatekeepers exist to be overthrown.” - Amos Vogel, Repeats and Responses

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 14/09/2021 - 09:26

“The most important question – Where is the experimental film movement? – is the one which I wish someone could answer for me”, wrote Maya Deren in August 1946 to the filmmaker Frank Stauffacher who was preparing a program for the San Francisco Museum of Art called “Art in Cinema”. Deren, who was 29 at the time, was a reference because in 1943 she had already started showing the experimental films she made with Alexander Hammid to a select audience.
Dates:
Thursday, September 23, 2021 (All day) to Thursday, September 30, 2021 (All day)
Venue:
Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art - Berlin, Germany
The Melancholy Lens: Loss and Mourning in American Avant-Garde Cinema
The impact of significant loss has exerted a powerful influence on several American avant-garde filmmakers. The Melancholy Lens offers a detailed look at biographical and psychological factors discernible in the art of Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, and Ernie Gehr with an aim toward a greater understanding of their work.
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland
An archeology of Swiss experimental film A comprehensive theoretical book, "Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland" traces the evolution of Swiss experimental film addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, video, expanded cinema, and performances, national scene and international influences, with a special focus on how art schools and festivals were decisive for its development.
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Publisher:
JRP Ringier
The Pursuit of Wholeness: Gregory Markopoulos

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 15/11/2018 - 05:25

The Pursuit of Wholeness pays tribute to seminal avant-garde filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos, with rare 16mm screenings of two of Markopoulos’ most acclaimed films and an exclusive preview of film critic Georgia Korossi’s documentary Devotion, a film that gives precious testimony of the 2016 edition of Temenos, the quadrennial event of screenings of Markopoulos’ monumental Eniaios. Curated by Eleonora Pesci this programme especially focuses on the ongoing, profound bond between the filmmaker’s works and his Greek heritage.
Dates:
Friday, December 7, 2018 (All day)
Sunday, December 9, 2018 (All day)
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
The films of Gregory J. Markopoulos

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 15/10/2018 - 06:32

Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-92) was one of the most original filmmakers to emerge in post-war American cinema. His films, which encompass mythic themes, portraiture and studies of landscape and architecture, are celebrated for their extraordinary creativity, the sensuous use of colour and innovations in cinematic form. By employing complex editing techniques and spontaneous in-camera superimposition, he sought to unlock the mystery and energy contained within the single frame. As a contemporary of Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger and Jonas Mekas, Markopoulos was amongst those at the forefront of a movement that liberated cinema as an artistic mode of expression. Having made his first 16mm film (Psyche) as a student in 1947, he went on to produce several key works of the New American Cinema such as Twice a Man (1963) and The Illiac Passion (1964-67).

Dates:
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 20:00 to Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 19:55
Venue:
Tabakalera - San Sebastián, Spain
Xcèntric: Markopoulos & Beavers

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 19/02/2018 - 08:51

Robert Beavers returns in person to Xcèntric to present a programme that features Eros, O Basileus by Gregory Markopoulos and three of his films, including his latest work Among the Eucalyptuses.
Dates:
Thursday, February 22, 2018 - 19:30
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, España
Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema
Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of family resemblance and language games provide a dynamic perspective on the analysis of acts of reference.
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Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Light Movement 18: Gregory Markopoulos

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 07/02/2017 - 04:35

For this months screening we are extremely lucky to have access to two prints of films by Gregory J. Markopoulos -the longer duration of Twice a Man, in which the filmmaker pushes his vision of an entirely new narrative cinematic form, followed by Bliss, a six minute film portraying with typical Markopoulos restrictiveness, an interior of an 18th century Byzantine Church on Hydra in Greece.
Dates:
Thursday, February 9, 2017 - 20:00 to Friday, February 10, 2017 - 19:55
Venue:
SPEKTRUM - Berlin, Germany
Robert Beavers
In a career spanning five decades, Robert Beavers has distinguished himself as one of the most important American avant-garde filmmakers. From My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, his cycle of 18 films made across Europe since 1967, to Pitcher of Colored Light (2007) and The Suppliant (2010), intimate portraits shot in the U.S., Beavers has produced a deeply original film language framed by his use of colored filters and mattes.
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Publisher:
Austrian Film Museum