{"id":4751,"date":"2009-03-28T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2018-01-26T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T11:43:18","slug":"gregory-markopoulos-llgff-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2009\/03\/28\/gregory-markopoulos-llgff-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory J. Markopoulos: Programme 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><strong>GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday 28 March 2009, at 4:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>London BFI Southbank NFT3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TWICE A MAN<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, USA, 1963, 16mm, colour, sound, 49 min<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>with Paul Kilb, Olympia Dukakis, Albert Torgesen<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Twice A Man<\/em> is a fragmented re-imagining of the Greek myth of Hippolytus, who was killed after rejecting the advances of his stepmother. Markopoulos\u2019 vision transposes the legend to 1960s New York and has its main character abandon his mother for an elder man. Employing sensuous use of colour, the film radicalised narrative construction with its mosaic of \u2018thought images\u2019 that shift tenses and compress time. One of the touchstones of independent filmmaking, <em>Twice A Man<\/em> was made in the same remarkable milieu as <em>Scorpio Rising<\/em> and <em>Flaming Creatures<\/em> by a filmmaker named \u2018the American avant-garde cinema\u2019s supreme erotic poet\u2019 by its key critic P. Adams Sitney.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MING GREEN<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, USA, 1966, 16mm, colour, sound, 7 min<\/strong><br \/>\nAn extraordinary self-portrait conveyed through the multiple layered superimpositions of the filmmaker\u2019s sparsely furnished room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009 Saturday 28 March 2009, at 4:30pm London BFI Southbank NFT3 TWICE A MAN Gregory J. Markopoulos, USA, 1963, 16mm, colour, sound, 49 min with Paul Kilb, Olympia Dukakis, Albert Torgesen Twice A Man is a fragmented re-imagining of the Greek myth of Hippolytus, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[136,16],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gregory-markopoulos-2009","tag-gregory-markopoulos","tag-london-lesbian-gay-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","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=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}