Robert Beavers Presents Two Gregory Markopoulos New York Films & The Illiac Passion

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Introduced by Robert Beavers

Thursday, October 24, 2013, 16:15h

One of the key figures of the New American Cinema, Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928–1992) made indelible film portraits and interior studies during the brief period when he was living in New York. Ming Green, named after the color of the walls in his apartment on West 11 Street, was his farewell to the city; dedicated to Stan Brakhage, the film was edited entirely in camera. Galaxie is his intimate record of cultural luminaries in mid-1960s New York: 33 painters, poets, filmmakers, choreographers, and critics, including W. H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Paul Thek, Maurice Sendak, Shirley Clarke, George and Mike Kuchar, and Allen Ginsberg, whom he observed in their studios or homes and filmed in a single session. While Andy Warhol had his Screen Tests, and Brakhage and Jonas Mekas were also making their own beautiful film portraits, Markopoulos perfected a technique of layering and editing within his Bolex camera that had the effect, he noted, of making "the idea and the image more concentrated; the result a more brilliant appeal to the mind and dormant senses." This program is presented by his partner Robert Beavers, an accomplished filmmaker who has passionately dedicated himself to the Temenos Archive and film theater that Markopoulos established in Lyssaraia, Greece. Restored by the Temenos Archive in collaboration with the Academy Film Archive, courtesy the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna.

- Galaxie (Gregory Markopoulos, 1966, USA, 92 min.)
- Ming Green (Gregory Markopoulos, 1966, USA, 7 min.) - Preserved by the Temenos Archive.

Thursday, October 24, 2013, 19h

One of Markopoulos's most ravishing and sophisticated works, The Illiac Passion is a contemporary reimagining of the classical Prometheus myth, filmed in New York City and on Long Island. Robert Beavers presents The Illiac Passion together with newly preserved silent rushes drawn from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection. Kristen M. Jones observes that “for a viewer seeing this extravagant ode to creation some thirty years after its making, the film’s most plangent moments involve Markopoulos’s affectionate casting of friends as mythical figures—Andy Warhol’s Poseidon pumping on an Exercycle above a sea of plastic, Taylor Mead’s Demon leaping, grimacing, and streaming vermilion fringes, and [Jack] Smith’s bohemian Orpheus, spending a quiet afternoon at home with Eurydice.” Reciting Thoreau’s translation of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Unbound in an incantatory, at times hesitating, voice, Markopoulos “selects words for repetition…making the literal sense of the text thoroughly abstract” (P. Adams Sitney).

- The Illiac Passion (rushes) (Gregory Markopoulos, 1964, USA, 12 min.)
- The Illiac Passion (Gregory Markopoulos, 1964–67. USA, 92 min.)

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MoMA New York - , Estados Unidos

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Jueves, Octubre 24, 2013 - 16:15

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Fechas: 

Jueves, Octubre 24, 2013 - 16:15

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  • 11 West 53 Street
    10019 Nueva York
    Estados Unidos
    40° 45' 41.0508" N, 73° 58' 39.45" W