Friday, December 12, 2025, 6:30 PM
curated by Filippo Perfetti

On the occasion of the finissage of the exhibition Monna Lisa by Helga Fanderl, curated by Filippo Perfetti, altriformati presents on Friday, December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM, at Studio Tommaseo on Via del Monte 2/1 (Trieste, Italy) a film program in dialogue with Fanderl’s work.

The Greek-born American filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-1992) was one of the most original filmmakers in American experimental film history. His films, which often translated literary or mythological sources to a contemporary context, are celebrated for their extraordinary creativity, the sensuous use of color and innovations in cinematic form.

This 16mm program features four films engaged variously with ideas of "text-as-image." Whereas Chaplin and Murnau once rejected silent era intertitling practices as "unfilmic," these filmmakers explore how text on screen could be just the opposite. Proposing self-consciously literal responses to longstanding scholarly questions about "film language," these conceptual works are as playful and comedic as they are formally rigorous.