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FILM AS FILM: LAS PEL\u00cdCULAS DE GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS \u201cThere is no language. There is no art. There is no knowledge. There is but film as film: the beginning and the eternal moment.\u201d (The Intuition Space, 1973)<\/p>\n Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-92) was one of the most original filmmakers to emerge in post-war American cinema. His films, which often translated literary or mythological sources to a contemporary context, are celebrated for their extraordinary creativity, the sensuous use of colour and innovations in cinematic form. A contemporary of Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger and Jonas Mekas, Markopoulos was amongst those at the forefront of a generation that liberated cinema by developing new modes of expression. Having made his first 16mm film (Psyche<\/em>) in 1947, as a student at USC, he went on to produce several key works of the avant-garde such as Twice a Man<\/em> (1963) and The Illiac Passion<\/em> (1964-67).<\/p>\n At the end of the 1960s, he moved to Europe to pursue a very individual path, withdrawing his films from distribution and making them almost impossible to see. Firmly believing that a filmmaker should be responsible for all aspects of his work, he conceived the Temenos, a monographic archive for the presentation, preservation and study of his films. Late in life he chose to re-edit his entire oeuvre into a monumental 80-hour long film to be shown only at a remote location near to his ancestral home in Greece. This speculative project is being realised posthumously by an open-air screening event that has taken place every four years since 2004.<\/p>\n Markopoulos\u2019 films encompass mythic themes, portraiture and studies of landscape and architecture. By employing complex editing techniques and spontaneous in-camera superimposition, he sought to unlock the mystery and energy contained within the single frame. This rare opportunity to experience the work of a true pioneer of independent filmmaking celebrates the publication of Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n \u2014<\/em>Mark Webber<\/em><\/p>\n Presented in collaboration with Revista Lumi\u00e8re<\/a> and The Visible Press<\/a>, with thanks to Robert Beavers and Temenos<\/a>.<\/p>\n Film as Film 1: Du Sang, de la volupt\u00e9 et de la Mort<\/strong><\/span> Film as Film 2: Gammelion<\/strong><\/span> Film as Film 3: Portraits<\/strong><\/span> Film as Film 4: The Illiac Passion<\/strong><\/span> FILM AS FILM: LAS PEL\u00cdCULAS DE GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS 3\u201420 February 2015 Spanish touring programme \u201cThere is no language. There is no art. There is no knowledge. There is but film as film: the beginning and the eternal moment.\u201d (The Intuition Space, 1973) Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-92) was one of the most original filmmakers to […]<\/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-5790","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\/5790","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=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n3\u201420 February 2015<\/strong>
\n Spanish touring programme
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\nGregory J. Markopoulos, Psyche, 1947, USA, 16mm, colour, sound, 24 min<\/strong>
\n Gregory J. Markopoulos, Lysis, 1948, USA, 16mm, colour, sound, 25 min<\/strong>
\n Gregory J. Markopoulos, Charmides, 1948, USA, 16mm, colour, sound, 11min
\n<\/strong>Tuesday 3 February 2015 at Barcelona Filmoteca de Catalunya – <\/em>Introduced by Mark Webber
\n<\/em>Saturday 7 February 2015 at Madrid La Casa Encendida – Introduced by Mark Webber<\/em>
\nWednesday 18 February 2015 at A Coru\u00f1a CGAI<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGregory J. Markopoulos, Bliss, 1967, Greece, 16mm, colour, sound, 6 min<\/strong>
\n Gregory J. Markopoulos, Gammelion, 1968, Italy, 16mm, colour, sound, 54 min
\n<\/strong>Wednesday 4 February 2015 at Barcelona Filmoteca de Catalunya – Introduced by Mark Webber
\nSunday 8 February 2015 at Madrid La Casa Encendida – Introduced by Mark Webber
\n<\/em>Thursday 19 February 2015 at A Coru\u00f1a CGAI – Introduced by Mark Webber<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGregory J. Markopoulos, Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill, 1967, USA, 16mm, colour, sound, 14 min<\/strong>
\n Gregory J. Markopoulos, Political Portraits, 1969, Switzerland, 16mm, colour, silent, 12 min (excerpt)<\/strong>
\n Gregory J. Markopoulos, The Olympian, 1969, Italy, 16mm, colour, silent, 23 min<\/strong>
\n Gregory J. Markopoulos, Gilbert and George, 1975, France, 16mm, colour, silent, 12 min
\n<\/strong>Thursday 5 February 2015 at Barcelona Filmoteca de Catalunya – Introduced by Mark Webber
\nMonday 9 February 2015 at Madrid Museo Reina Sofia – Introduced by Arnau Vilar\u00f3
\n<\/em>Friday 20 February 2015 at A Coru\u00f1a CGAI – Introduced by Mark Webber<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGregory J. Markopoulos, The Illiac Passion, 1964-67, USA, 16mm, colour, sound, 91 min
\n<\/strong>Sunday 8 February 2015 at Barcelona CCCB Xcentric – Introduced by Revista Lumi\u00e8re
\n<\/em>Tuesday 10 February 2015 at Madrid Museo Reina Sofia
\n<\/em>Friday 20 February 2015 at A Coru\u00f1a CGAI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"