{"id":5724,"date":"2014-09-28T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=5724"},"modified":"2018-01-26T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T11:42:50","slug":"markopoulos-basilica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2014\/09\/28\/markopoulos-basilica\/","title":{"rendered":"Film as Film: Three Films by Gregory J. Markopoulos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><strong>FILM AS FILM: THREE FILMS BY GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS<br \/>\nSunday 28 September 2014, at 7pm<br \/>\nBasilica Hudson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celebrating the publication of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thevisiblepress.com\/product\/film-as-film\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos<\/em><\/a> (The Visible Press), filmmaker Robert Beavers, and the book\u2019s editor Mark Webber will present a very rare screening of three early Markopoulos films that were made in the United States in the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, Ming Green, 1966, 7 min<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, Twice a Man, 1963, 48 min<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill, 1967, 14 min<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Co-presented by Basilica Hudson and the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College.<\/p>\n<a onclick=\"wpex_toggle(147894807, 'PROGRAMME NOTES', 'Read less'); return false;\" class=\"wpex-link\" id=\"wpexlink147894807\" href=\"#\">PROGRAMME NOTES<\/a><div class=\"wpex_div\" id=\"wpex147894807\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>FILM AS FILM: THREE FILMS BY GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sunday 28 September 2014, at 7pm<br \/>\nBasilica Hudson<\/p>\n<p><strong>MING GREEN<br \/>\nGregory J. Markopoulos, 1966, 16mm, colour, sound, 7 min<\/strong><br \/>\nDedicated to Stan Brakhage. Music:&nbsp;<em>Traumen \/ Wesendonck Lieder<\/em>&nbsp;by Richard Wagner. Filmed in New York City.<br \/>\n\u201cAn extraordinary self-portrait conveyed through multiple layered superimpositions of the filmmaker\u2019s sparsely furnished room in Greenwich Village.\u201d (Mark Webber)<\/p>\n<p><strong>TWICE A MAN<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1963, 16mm, colour, sound, 48 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Based on the story of Hippolytus.&nbsp;Featuring Paul Kilb, Olympia Dukakis, Albert Torgesen.&nbsp;Music: Excerpt from&nbsp;<em>Manfred Symphony,&nbsp;op. 58<\/em>&nbsp;by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.&nbsp;Filmed in New York City, Staten Island, Long Island and Bear Mountain Park.<br \/>\n\u201c<em>Twice A Man<\/em>&nbsp;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,&nbsp;<em>Twice A Man<\/em>&nbsp;was made in the&nbsp;same remarkable milieu as&nbsp;<em>Scorpio Rising<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Flaming Creatures<\/em>&nbsp;by a filmmaker named \u2018the American avant-garde cinema\u2019s supreme erotic poet\u2019 by its key critic P. Adams Sitney.\u201d (Mark Webber)<\/p>\n<p><strong>THROUGH A LENS BRIGHTLY: MARK TURBYFILL<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1967, 16mm, 15 min<\/strong><br \/>\nFeaturing Mark Turbyfill. Filmed in Chicago.<br \/>\n\u201cThe life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through traditional portraiture and personal objects.\u201d (Mark Webber)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILM AS FILM: THREE FILMS BY GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS Sunday 28 September 2014, at 7pm Basilica Hudson Celebrating the publication of&nbsp;Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos (The Visible Press), filmmaker Robert Beavers, and the book\u2019s editor Mark Webber will present a very rare screening of three early Markopoulos films that were [&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":[158],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-5724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gregory-markopoulos-film-as-film","tag-gregory-markopoulos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724","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=5724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}