Today marks the start of the second week of the Gregory J. Markopolous
retrospective at the American Center in Paris (51 rue de Bercy, 75013 Paris).
 
Some information about the retrospective follows, cross-posted from
FrameWorks, the experimental film discussion list.
 
-Pip Chodorov <[log in to unmask]>
 
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NOVEMBER 4, 1995
Yann Beauvais, the curator for film and video, opened the Markopoulos
retrospective yesterday evening by explaining that some of Markopoulos' films
which will be screened have not been shown in France or even in America since
1960. Jonas Mekas remarked three days ago in New York that he would have
liked to have been in Paris to see some of these films that he has never
seen, particularly "Flowers of Asphalt" (1949-1951), and "Through a Lens
Brightly" (1966) which were projected this afternoon.
 
As some of the prints are unique copies from the sixties with no existing
internegative, or are pristine prints that have just been struck, no splices
will be made even in the leaders, and therefore during the feature films
there may be thirty seconds or a minute of black between reels.
 
A catalogue has also been published for the occasion by the American Center
including some of Markopoulos' writings in French which have never before
been published, as well as an essay by Yann Beauvais and the first complete
filmography through 1971. This catalogue costs 30 french francs (about US$6).
 
The program runs in Paris through November 30, and will then be rescreened in
New York at the Whitney Museum in March, 1996. The program is a coproduction
between the American Center and the Whitney Museum, with thanks to Robert
Beavers and the Temenos Foundation.
 
From the American Center Fall Program Catalogue:
"Gregory J. Markopoulos is one of the founding figures of independent film in
America, whose solitary course spanned over the past forty-five years. This
first French retrospective permits the audience to discover the importance of
Markopoulos and the influence of his work on filmmakers to follow. The series
gives particular importance to the first thirty years of his work: films
dealing with homosexual love, a theme inspired by literary and mythological
references. As a master of color and montage, Gregory J. Markopoulos created
a new narrative form based upon the intensity of the smallest film unit, the
single frame. He also found new ways to treat portraiture and landscape on
film through the rhythmic layering of multiple images. On the occasion of
this retrospective, the Temenos Foundation is making new prints of finished
films while also preparing to print the twenty-two cycles of his final
oeuvre, ENIAIOS. The retrospective is accompanied by the publication of a
selection of Gregory J. Markopoulos' writings on 'film as film' in which he
uncompromisingly defines the ties that bring cinema, art and life together.
This event has been made possible with the help of the Temenos Foundation."
 
GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS (1928-1992)
Retrospective from 1940 to 1971
3-30 November 1995
 
Friday 3 November, 7 pm & Saturday 18 November, 7pm:
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, 1940, 5'
DU SANG DE LA VOLUPTE ET DE LA MORT (PSYCHE - LYSIS - CHARMIDES), 1947-48,
70'
 
Saturday 4 November, 4pm:
Lecture on the film "GALAXIE" by Harry Tomicek, Austrian critic and
Markopoulos expert.
 
Saturday 4 November, 5pm & Friday 24 November, 7pm:
GALAXIE, 1966, 92'
 
Saturday 4 November, 7pm & Saturday 25 November, 7pm:
THE DEAD ONES, 1949, 28'
SWAIN, 1950, 20'
FLOWERS OF ASPHALT, 1949-51, 10'
THROUGH A LENS BRIGHTLY: MARK TURBYFILL, 1966, 15'
 
Sunday 5 November, 5pm:
HIMSELF AS HERSELF, 1967, 60'
(A)LTER (A)KTION, 1968, 59'
 
Thursday 9 November, 7pm & Saturday 18 November, 5pm:
BLISS, 1967, 6'
SORROWS, 1969, 6'
MOMENT, 1970, 8'
SAINT ACTEON, 1971, 12'
HAGIOGRAPHIA, 1970, 60'
 
Friday 10 November, 7pm & Sunday 19 November, 3pm:
GAMMELION, 1968, 54'
INDEX-HANS RICHTER, 1969, 30'
 
Saturday 11 November, 5pm & Wednesday 29 November, 7pm:
POLITICAL PORTRAITS, 1969, 80'
 
Saturday 11 November, 7pm & Sunday 26 November, 5pm:
TWICE A MAN, 1963, 47'
THE FILMING OF "TWICE A MAN", Charles Levine, 1963, 3'
EROS, O BASILEUS, 1967, 49'
 
Sunday 12 November, 3pm & Thursday 23 November, 7pm:
THE DIVINE DAMNATION, 1967, 57'
THE OLYMPIAN, 1969, 30'
 
Sunday 12 November, 5pm:
HIMSELF AS HERSELF, 1967, 60'
 
Thursday 16 November, 7pm & Sunday 19 November, 5pm:
THE MYSTERIES, 1968, 80'
 
Friday 17 November, 7pm & Thursday 30 November, 7pm:
THE ILLIAC PASSION, 1964-67, 92'
TEST WITH MASKS OF THE ILLIAC PASSION, 1966, 3'
 
Saturday 25 November, 5pm:
(A)LTER (A)KTION, 1968, 59'
 
For more information call the American Center,
Paris: (33-1) 44 73 77 19
New York: (212) 966 0909
World-wide-web: http://www.quelm.fr/AC/AC2.html
 
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