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
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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

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.

The September Mutual Films Session features films by artists who have been collaborators and friends. Berliner filmmaker and curator Ute Aurand (born in 1957), one of the greatest contemporary exponents of experimental cinema in Europe, will come to Brazil for the first time to present two programs of her films (all in their Brazilian premieres) in their original format in 16 mm She will also present a program of short films by the Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait (1918-1999) – whose work process Aurand knew in depth in the 1990s –, in new high-resolution digital copies that have been shown at festivals and cinematheques around the world in recent years in honor of the centenary of Tait.