{"id":1427,"date":"2008-03-07T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2018-01-26T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T11:43:19","slug":"markopoulos-portraits-of-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2008\/03\/07\/markopoulos-portraits-of-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Markopoulos: Portraits of Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARKOPOULOS: PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS<br \/>\nFriday 7 March 2008, at 7pm<br \/>\nLondon Tate Modern<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Markopoulos made many extraordinary film portraits, which often incorporate an activity or object that has personal significance to the subject. This programme presents a selection of poetic and sensuous portraits of cultural and art world luminaries such as Gilbert &amp; George, Alberto Moravia, Giorgio di Chirico and Rudolph Nureyev.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, Through A Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill, USA, 1967, 15 min<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Portrait of Mark Turbyfill<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, Eniaios (Order III, Reel 1) (Gibraltar), Switzerland, 1975, 15 min<br \/>\n<\/strong> <em>Portrait of Gilbert &amp; George<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, Eniaios (Order IV, Reel 6) (The Olympian), Italy, 1969, 23 min<br \/>\n<\/strong> <em>Portrait of Alberto Moravia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Political Portraits (excerpt)<br \/>\nGregory J. Markopoulos, Europe, 1969, 15 min<br \/>\n<\/strong> <em>Portraits of Ulrich Herzog, Marcia Haydee, Rudolph Nureyev, Giorgio di Chirico<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, Eniaios (Order II, Reel 2), Europe, undated, 23 min<br \/>\n<\/strong> <em>Portraits of Hans-Jakob Siber, Franco Quadri, Giorgio Frapoli, Klaus Sch\u00f6nherr and family<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe films preserve the myriad flights of isolated, spectrally splintered and itinerant spirit, lost in yearning, in search of intuitive wholeness while negotiating mazes of desire, seeking sanctuary in the reflection of countless identities. The works hold a shimmering mirror up to the contradictory compulsions of an era, set to register, for a few instants, shocks of recognition.\u201d (Kirk Winslow, Millennium Film Journal)<\/p>\n<p><em>The screening will be introduced by Robert Beavers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. As an introduction to her work, this programme depicts three diverse groups of contemporary Russian women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[136,54],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gregory-markopoulos-2008","tag-gregory-markopoulos","tag-markopoulos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}