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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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Gregory J. Markopoulos - Film as Film, Archive as Creation

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 28/05/2025 - 07:04

Gregory J. Markopoulos
Film as Film, Archive as Creation
An exhibition by François Bovier, with the participation of Robert Beavers, filmmaker and curator of the Temenos archive
Parallel exhibition at the Kunsthaus Biel Art Center Biel (KBCB)
Dates:
Saturday, June 7, 2025 (All day) to Saturday, August 30, 2025 (All day)
Venue:
CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain - Lausanne, Switzerland
Gregory J. Markopoulos - Film as Film, Archive as Creation

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 26/05/2025 - 05:54

Under the banner of ‘film as film’, the absolute cinema of Greek-American Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928–1992) alternates between fixed sequence shots and autonomous photograms. His work is based on portraits of people and places, and partly on adaptations of Hellenic myths. His last epic work, Eniaios (1948–1990, approx. 80 hours), reassembles his earlier films in a new order, combining them with new ones shot for the occasion. Since 2004, the restored work has been screened every four years at Temenos, an open-air utopian projection space in Greece.
Dates:
Sunday, June 8, 2025 (All day) to Sunday, August 31, 2025 (All day)
Venue:
Kunsthaus Biel - Biel, Switzerland
Temenos Verein - Film Screening

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 19/11/2024 - 10:58

Gregory J. Markopoulos. Filmmaker, born in Toledo, Ohio, 1928, died in Freiburg im Breisgau 1992

Sorrows 1969, 16mm, color, opt. sound. 6 min.
“A powerful mood piece, it uses only the light and color emanating from the enclosed surroundings and selected objects… It evokes, without the presence of a single ‘living’ being, the reality of a life or lives, passing yet present, persistent, like a fragrance,reverberating with continued expectation. “ Kirk Winslow
https://www.thetemenos.org/
Dates:
Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 12:00
Venue:
Kino Xenix - Zurich, Switzerland
Together: Overlapping Histories, Friendships & Dialogues

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 25/03/2024 - 09:28

Introduced by Peter Todd with Luke Fowler, Anthea Kennedy and Ian Wiblin in attendance.

“There is no language. There is no art. There is no knowledge. There is but film as film: the beginning and the eternal moment.” – Gregory J. Markopoulos

“In poetry, something else happens. Hard to say what it is. Presence, let’s say, soul or spirit, an empathy with whatever it is that’s dwelt upon, feeling for it – to the point of identification". – Margaret Tait
Dates:
Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 18:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
The Films of Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers and Gregory J Markopoulos

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 09/10/2023 - 11:08

This October and November, Ute Aurand and Robert Beavers will be visiting Australia for the first time to present the program, The Films of Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers and Gregory J Markopoulos, at AGNSW on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 October, and at the Australian Cinémathèque at QAGOMA on Friday 3 November to Sunday 5 November. In Melbourne, Ute will present her films at ACMI on Tuesday 7 November, and Robert will introduce his films and Markopoulos's films at the Melbourne Cinematheque on Wednesday 8 November.
Dates:
Thursday, October 26, 2023 (All day)
Friday, October 27, 2023 (All day)
Saturday, October 28, 2023 (All day)
Sunday, October 29, 2023 (All day)
Friday, November 3, 2023 (All day)
Saturday, November 4, 2023 (All day)
Sunday, November 5, 2023 (All day)
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 (All day)
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 (All day)
Xcèntric: Flowers of Asphalt

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 17/02/2023 - 04:33

The protagonists of these dreamy, visionary trance films begin their erotic quests while going through various mental and emotional states. By means of visual symbols or metaphors, elliptical narratives and different editing strategies, Markopoulos addresses the disclosure of sexual identity (Flowers of Asphalt), the rejection of the male heterosexual role (Swain) and unconsummated sexual desire (The Mysteries).
Dates:
Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 19:00
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
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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Books
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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Books
Publisher:
JRP Ringier