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2008
June 27 -29, 2008 at Lyssarea, Arcadia, Greece
TEMENOS 2008: Markopoulos's ENIAIOS: Cycles 3-5
March 7 & 8, 2008 at Tate Modern, London, UK
Gregory J. Markopoulos: The Temenos
Two programs will be presented:
Portraits of Artists, Friday 7 March 2008, 19.00
The Illiac Passion, Saturday 8 March 2008, 19.00
February 24, 2008, 7pm at the Harvard Film Archive,
Cambridge, MA
Two Films by Robert Beavers
Robert Beavers will appear in person.
A Pitcher of Colored Light (2007 16mm, color, 25
min)
Ruskin (1974/1997, 35mm, color, 45 min)
To the top
2007
December 2, 2007, 7pm at the Whitney Humanities
Center Auditorium, Yale University, 53 Wall Street, New
Haven, CT
Markopoulos's The Illiac Passion
Sponsored by the Yale Research Initiative on the History
of Sexualities and the Film Studies Program
September 14 & 17, 2007, Kassel, Germany, 20:30h
DOCUMENTA 12
Bliss, Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1967, 16mm, Colour
The Hedge Theater, Robert Beavers, 1986-90/2002,
35mm, Colour
Ming Green, Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1966, 16mm,
Colour
A Pitcher of Colored Light, Robert Beavers, 2007,
35mm, Colour, World Premiere presented by Robert Beavers
February 2 - 25, 2007
February 2007 ROBERT BEAVERS RETROSPECTIVE
To the Winged Distance: Films by Robert Beavers
Tate Modern London, UK.
See Tate
Modern website for screening details.
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2006
October 16, 2006, 18:30 at Starz FilmCenter at the
Tivoli, 900 Auraria Parkway, Denver, Colorado
The Internation Experimental Cinema Exposition
Gregory Markopoulos's The Illiac Passion, (USA,
1964-67, 16mm)
January 20, 2006, 7pm at the University of Chicago,
Film Studies Center, 5811 South Ellis Ave. Cobb Hall 307,
Chicago, IL 60637, 773.702.8596
Gregory Markopoulos's Swain will be shown as part
of the series titled: Beyond Warhol, Smith and Anger
Recovering the Significance of Postwar Queer Underground
Cinema
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2005
November 30, 2005, 7.30pm at Princeton University,
Program in Visual Arts, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ
08544
Gregory Markopoulos's The Illiac Passion will
be shown in pr. P.Adams Sitney's class: "The Image
of Greece in European Cinema"
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2004
November 13, 2004 at the Donnell Library Center,
Donnell Media Center, Donnell Library Center, Lower Level,
20 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
Two screenings and a round-table discussion on the Temenos
and Eniaios
Two screenings and around-table discussion are scheduled
for November 13th, 2004, at the Donnell Library Auditorium.
The event is divided in two sessions:
11:00am: "Robert Beavers presents Gregory Markopoulos'
Galaxie."
Galaxie (directed by Gregory Markopoulos, 96 minutes,
1966). Galaxie, made in 1966, is a collection of
33 multi-layered portraits of people central to the contemporary
arts...
1.30pm: "Robert Beavers celebrates Gregory Markopoulos's
Eniaios."
A screening of one reel from Eniaios
A round-table discussion with François Boué,
Maryette Charlton, Helga Fanderl, Jeffrey Stout, Noah
Stout, and Robert Beavers.
June 25 - 27, 2004
Summer Presentations in Arcadia
The proposed screenings will premiere the first cycles
of ENIAIOS in June 2004.This event is site-specific on
several levels. The original meaning of the term 'Temenos'
is 'a piece of land set apart.' Markopoulos chose a specific
site in Arcadia not only because of his family's origins,
but because it is an ideal site for the spectator's aesthetic
quest. Markopoulos's film work is deeply imbued with Hellenic
culture, and the films thus gain a most powerful meaning
if they can be shown in this setting.
ENIAIOS investigates themes of Greek mythology and place.
Already Markopoulos's very first film presented the myth
of Psyche (1947), and he remained faithful to this source
of inspiration whether he produced films of other mythic
themes (such as Prometheus in The Illiac Passion, Hippolytos
in Twice A Man), filmed portraits of prominent Greek,
European, or American artists, or made films with ancient
archeological sites (such as Pyra Heracleos, the Aesclepion
of Cos, Olympia, Dodona, Bassae etc.) or film portraits
of interiors.( such as the houseof Wagner, the apartment
of Colette ).
When Markopoulos and Beavers organized screenings in
the Peloponnese during the 1980's, the films and setting
combined to elevate the spectators' sense of time while
emotionally and physically connecting them to the mythic
themes. The Temenos screenings create a viewing environment
in which the viewer can absorb the epic images of the
films and create an order in the emotions that Markopoulos
associated with the tradition of Asclepius, the ancient
Greek god of medicine. The premiere screenings planned
for June, 2004 will be held from 10 p.m. in the evening
until 4 a.m. in the morning on three consecutive evenings.
The weather in June is the most clear and comfortable
at this altitude (900 m.a.s.). in Arcadia. The unusual
timing and setting for the screenings will produce an
event that the spectator should retain in memory for a
lifetime, the very opposite of mass media.
Since Lyssaraia is in a region that is not developed,
arrangements will be made for viewers to reside in the
area. There are hotels in Dimitsana, Vitina, and Stemnitsa.
A few monasteries, such as Pro Dromo, and the possibility
to rent private rooms in the surrounding villages of Lyssaraia,
Paloumba, Sarakini, and Loutra Ireas. Provisions will
also be made for sleeping at the site and for a simple
buffet. The screenings will require the construction of
temporary seating for approximately 250 viewers, a projection
apparatus with a screen that is 20 feet high by 27 feet
wide, and a generator. This facility will be maintained
over the next years for the later premieres of ENIAIOS
as the following cycles are restored and printed.
April 16 - 28, 2004 at National Film Theatre, London,
UK
Gregory Markopoulos: Myth, Portraiture and Films
of Place
The National Film Theatre is planning four programs of
films by Gregory Markopoulos to present the work of Markopoulos
to the English audience and precede the June screenings
of Eniaios at the Temenos, in Greece.
Films of Place, Sat 17 April 6.15pm & Mon 19
April 8.40pm
The Illiac Passion, Sat 17 April 8.40pm & Tue
20 April 6.20pm
Literature and Myth, Fri 16 April 6.20pm &
Sun 18 April 8.40pm
Portraiture, Sun 18 April 6.20pm & Wed 21 April
6.20pm
February 2004 at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
La Casa Encendida will be showing two programs with films
by Gregory Markopoulos as part of their Grecia en La Casa
Encendida program. The two programs will be:
PROGRAM 1:
Swain (25 min, color, sound, 16mm; 1950)
Ming Green (7 min, color, sound, 16mm; 1966)
Twice A Man (48 min, color, sound, 16mm; 1962)
Bliss (6 min, color, sound, 16mm; 1967)
Saturday 14 February at 6pm & 8pm
Saturday 21 February at 6pm & 8pm
Saturday 28 February at 6pm & 8pm
PROGRAM 2:
The Illiac Passion (92 min, color, sound, 16mm;
1964 - 1967)
Sunday 15 February at 6pm
Sunday 22 February at 6pm
Sunday 29 February at 6pm
February 17, 2004, 6:30pm reception, screening begins
at 7:30pm, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at
Second Street, Suggested Admission: $20
Markopoulos' ENIAIOS Benefit Screening
Temenos, Inc. New York is organizing a benefit screening
hosted by Anthology Film Archives on February 17, 2004.
The evening will present a program of films by Gregory
J. Markopoulos and will include a preview of one film
from ENIAIOS, Markopoulos' final and culminating film
achievement.
Proceeds from this event will support the premiere of
the first cycles of Gregory Markopoulos' ENIAIOS at the
Temenos site in Arcadia, Greece, on June 25th-27th, 2004,
and the restoration of further cycles. Information about
the ENIAIOS premiere will be available at the benefit
screening.
The program consisted of the following films:
By Gregory J. Markopoulos:
Swain, 1950
Sorrows, 1969
Portrait of Gilbert and George (from ENIAIOS
III)
Robert Beavers:
Early Monthly Segments, 1967 - 1970 / 2002
February 3 - 8, 2004 at the Pacific Film Archives
The Films of Robert Beavers: My Hand Outstretched
On the occasion of a residency at PFA sponsored by the
Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley, Robert Beavers
will introduce three public programs of his work as well
as participate in a workshop with students.
Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 7:30pm
Robert Beavers, Program I
A portrait of Gregory Markopoulos, a dialog between male
lovers, and an exploration of love and separation. “Despite
their restraint, [Beavers's films] have an immediate kinetic
impact—they go right to your solar plexus and change
the rate of your breathing—but they also engage your
mind with their subtle deployment of metaphor.”—Village
Voice
Thursday, February 5, 2004, 7:30pm
Robert Beavers, Program II
Three films shot in Greece “exalt the beauty of life
through a classicist's sensibility.”—Stephen
Holden
Friday, February 6, 2004, 3:00pm
Workshop with Robert Beavers
Free lecture and film screening for students.
Sunday, February 8, 2004, 3:00pm
Robert Beavers, Program III
Masterful homages to the art and architecture of Italy.
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2003
November 18 & 19, 2003, Torino Film Festival
The Hedge Theatre (Robert Beavers, 2002)
in the Out Of Competion (Detours) section of the festival
18:00 on Nov. 18th in Theater 9
14:00 on Nov. 19th in Theater 9
November 15 & 16, 2003, Österreichische
Filmmuseum
Robert Beavers Workshop
Robert Beavers will be showing and discussing works by
other artists such as Gregory J. Markopoulos and Carl
Theodor Dreyer. To open the workshop, Harry Tomicek will
introduce the artist with a lecture and selected films.
November 15, 2003, 7:30pm at The International Experimental
Cinema Exposition, Denver, CO
The films shown were Psyche, Swain, Ming
Green, and Twice a Man
November 12, 2003, 19:00 at KINO ARSENAL,
Potsdamer Strasse 2, Berlin
The Illiac Passion (Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1964-67)
Autumn/Winter 2003 in Various Cities
The Illiac Passion by Gregory Markopoulos(1964-67,
USA, 92minutes)
This screening is part of the Cinemythology: Greek Myths
in World Cinema. This series is organized by the Thessaloniki
Film Festival and the Cultural Olympiad, and will travel
to the following Greek cities: Athens & Piraeus, Thessaloniki
as well as to Berlin, Madrid, and London.
October 21, 2003, Goethe Institut Athen, 14-16 Omirou
Street, GR-10033, Athens, Greece: The Illiac Passion
(1964-67, USA, 92minutes)
October 6, 2003, University of Chicago DocFilms, Three
films by Gregory Markopoulos will be presented: Psyche
(1947, USA, 25 minutes), Sorrows (1969, Switzerland,
6 minutes ) & Twice a Man (1963, USA, 49 minutes)
September 9 & 12, 2003, Toronto International Film
Festival, Toronto, Canada
Tuesday September 9, 2003 at 7:30pm & Friday September
12, 2003 at 3:30pm
Three films by Robert Beavers will be shown within the
Festival's Wavelengths program: Early Monthly Segments
(Switzerland, 2002) 35 mm, sound, color, 33 min., The
Ground (Greece/Switzerland/USA, 2001) 35 mm, sound,
color, 20 min., & The Hedge Theater (Italy/Switzerland,
2002) 35 mm, sound, color, 7min.
June 26, 2003, 7pm at Munich Film Museum
A program called Venice & Film, part of the museum's
Open Scene series, will include Robert Beavers's film
Ruskin.
June 19, 2003 at Barbican Centre, London
A program titled California Sound/California Image:
From Hollywood to San Francisco: The West Coast and the
Avant-Garde will include Markopoulos's Psyche
(1947).
May 30, 2003, 8pm, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh,
PA
Short works by Gregory Markopoulos: Psyche
(USA, 1947) 16 mm, color, 25 min., Swain (USA,
1950) 16 mm, color, 24 min., Ming Green (USA, 1966)
16 mm, color, 7min., Bliss (Greece, 1967) 16 mm,
color, 6 min., & Gammelion (1968) 16 mm, color,
55 min.
May 28, 2003 at Goethe Institute of Athens, Greece
on Omirou Street, Athens
Towards the Temenos: Ming Green, Psyche,
Twice a Man, and Bliss by Gregory J. Markopoulos.
The screening was introduced by Simon Field, director
of the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
April 24, 2003 at Osterreichisches Filmmuseum
The Stoas, The Hedge Theater, and The
Ground by Robert Beavers
March 28 - 31, 2003 at the Harvard Film Archive,
Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA
Four Programs of Films by Gregory J. Markopoulos
March 25, 2003, 8pm at Massachusetts College of
Art
Amor and The Stoas by Robert Beavers
March 13th, 2003 at the Gene Siskel Film Center,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
From The Notebook Of..., Work Done &
The Ground by Robert Beavers
March 11, 2003 at the Union Theatre, University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
From The Notebook Of..., Work Done &
The Ground by Robert Beavers
January 28 & February 25, 2003 at Pacific Film
Archive, Berkeley, CA
Psyche and Twice A Man by Gregory J. Markopoulos
and Work done by Robert Beavers in a series dedicated
to P. Adams Sitney's new edition of Visionary Film.
February 15 - 16, 2003 at The Walter Reade Theater,
Lincoln Center, New York
GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS/ROBERT BEAVERS: TOWARDS THE
TEMENOS
In memory of Kirk Winslow
The original source for the Temenos is the idea of the
filmmaker as sole creator of an entire film in all its
aspects, including how it is presented and preserved.
The goal of Gregory J. Markopoulos and Robert Beavers
has been to preserve their films, each as a body of work,
together with their writings and archives. The films are
ultimately intended to be seen in Greece in a place that
is in harmony with this work. The necessity of one filmmaker's
achievement being restored and presented by another filmmaker
has also grown out of this vision.
The Temenos has endeavored to restore and print the films
of Gregory J. Markopoulos, both the publicly known work
and the later films that have not yet been seen, and to
show the films in the way that he conceived.
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Program 1.
Psyche by Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1947, USA. 25 minutes.
(Part I of Du Sang,de la volupté et de la mort)
Cast : Ann Wells, George Emmons. Inspired by an unfinished
novella by Pierre Louÿs.Music excerpt from Serenade
by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
"Psyche has no parallel among early American avant-garde
films. For Markopoulos was at once the film-maker most
attracted to narrative of his generation...and one of
the most radical narrative film-makers in the world....Three
interrelated characteristics define Markopoulos's style:
color, rhythm,and atemporal construction." P.Adams
Sitney
"Color reflects the true character of the individual
before us, whether it be on the screen, in a painting,
or in the street. Color is Eros." Markopoulos
Twice A Man by Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1963, USA.
49 minutes. Dedicated to Clara Hoover.Music excerpt from
Manfred Symphony by Peter Tchaikovsky Cast; Paul Kilb,Olympia
Dukakis, Violet Roditi, Albert Torgesen. Voice: Olympia
Dukakis
"Limitless change in rhythm,or sudden interjection
of alliteration, metaphor,symbol, or any discontinuity
introduced in the structure of the motion picture, makes
possible the arrest of the spectator's attention, as the
film-maker gradually convinces the spectator not only
to see and to hear, but to participate in what is being
created on the screen, on both the narrative and introspective
levels." Markopoulos
"Twice A Man opens with two minutes of black leader
and the sound of falling rain, before plunging the spectator
into its dazzlingly complex structure, formed of interwoven
single frames and clusters of frames. Like the characters
in (his) other works, the protagonist, Paul, grapples
with past, present, and future while pursuing Eros and
creativity....Paul encounters a labyrinth of memories,
echoing with color and pierced by shards of syncopated
speech that form a portion of the film's extraordinary
soundtrack." Kristin M. Jones
Ming Green by Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1966, USA.
7 minutes. Dedicated to Stan Brakhage. Music: 'Traumen'
from Wesendonck Lieder by Richard Wagner.
A portrait of the filmmaker's apartment made a few months
before his departure from New York.
"The advantages of editing in the camera have economic
and aesthetic values; for by editing in the camera one
must be more and more exact; the idea and the image more
concentrated; the result a more brilliant appeal to the
mind and dormant senses." Markopoulos
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Program 2.
Himself as Herself by Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1967,
USA. 60 minute. Dedicated to Emlen Etting. Cast: Gordon
Baldwin. Music: excerpt from Gloria by Francis Poulenc.
"One of the most vertiginous of these interior landscapes
is Himself as Herself, a shimmering, nearly plotless evocation
of a fluctuation in gender, formed of haunting, densely
interlaced images." K. Jones
"(The) protagonist's experience of his world, the
movement of his fingers over the objects of that world,
and the perception of his being, within it, as it comes
to us through Markopoulos's sensitive camera and editing
work -- all these things thrust the viewer into the depths
and ambiguities of his own sexuality, and come as a revelation
of his own relationship to that which is not, and is,
himself." Robert Lamberton
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill by Gregory
J. Markopoulos, 1967, USA. 15 minutes.
"But with the swift Markopoulos appraisal of the
materials, confusion seemed transformed into light and
order. It was as if a jigsaw puzzle had fallen into a
well proportioned pattern. A significant stretch of my
life seemed to be recaptured and illuminated in a kind
of mosaic which this extremely intuitive artist was organizing
out of fortuitous and haphazard fragments." Mark
Turbyfill
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Program 3.
Bliss by Gregory J. Markopoulos 1967, 6 minutes,
Greece. Dedicated to Alice Burkhard
Filmed in the Church of St. John on the island of Hydra,
Bliss is the first film made by Markopoulos after moving
to Europe.
The Illiac Passion by Gregory J. Markopoulos,
1964-67, USA. 92 minutes.
"While in his writings Markopoulos posited the timelessness
of classical themes, his treatment of myth -- in narratives
that are fueled by sensuality and interior experience
-- was startlingly modern. He spoke of deploying "incarnate
individuals or character figures" instead of actors.
The vitality of his approach is exemplified in his imaginative
casting of 23 friends and underground figures, including
Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, and Taylor Mead, as mythical
beings in... The Illiac Passion. Kristin M. Jones
"Among these film spectators, the New World Spectators,there
will be those who are ready to understand, who are not
too tired to understand the simple method of the images;
the simple and rich method of the filmmaker singing his
images to Aeschylus' play and to the Greek myths; the
filmmaker chanting the remarkable translation of Prometheus
Bound by the American Thoreau.Who will not pause to breathe
freer; who will not pause to consider how the characters
of The Illiac Passion are bound and unbound in their passions;
who will not pause to be immersed in my lake of Remembrance
and Forgetfulness." Markopoulos
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Program 4.
A Selection from the portrait series: Galaxie 1966, 92
minutes, USA & Political Portraits 1969, 60 minutes,
Switzerland, Italy & Germany followed by Sorrows by
Gregory J. Markopoulos 1969, 6 minutes, Switzerland
"The film-maker resurrected the discipline of making
films without post-editing in 1966 when he shot his collection
of portraits, Galaxie....In making the portraits his method
had been to select an object or an activity with personal
significance to the the subject. Carefully watching the
frame-counter on his camera, he would expose a number
of takes of one image interspersed with blackness,...He
would then rewind the film and expose the units of the
next view, detail, or object....each image has its own
metrical pace, which alternates with or is superimposed
upon the others." P. Adams Sitney
" ...They're 3 minute portraits of people that I
met in Switzerland and other places...I call them political
portraits in the Greek sense, daily living, and I use
a quote from Paul Valéry at the end of the credit
titles and the beginning of the first portrait."
Markopoulos
Sorrows was shot in Triebschen,Switzerland, outside of
Lucerne. "It's the house that King Ludwig of Bavaria
built for Richard Wagner and his family when Wagner didn't
have any place to go. It's a beautiful place because it's
right on the lake, a very simple structure; it's unique
because of all the windows it has; it has windows on all
four sides, on all four floors. Its's a film in which
all of the editing is done in camera. It was very cold
that day, there was a little bit of fog, but as I filmed,
starting at the main entrance along the road, the fog
sort of lifted. The first roll was the outside, the second
the inside. By the time I got inside, the sun kept coming
out - so it's like a piece of crystal, it comes to light.
I just used a motif from Beethoven's Leonore overture,
which Wagner liked very much." Markopoulos interviewed
by Jonas Mekas, Film Culture
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Program 5.
My Hand Outstretched: Winged Dialogue, Plan of
Brussels & various monthly segments by Robert Beavers,
1967-69/2002. 32 minutes followed by Amor by Robert
Beavers, 1980, 15 minutes & The Hedge Theater
by Robert Beavers, 2002, 19 minutes
(This is the first public screening of my earliest films
in the final editing. The works were filmed when I was
18 or 19 and now open the sequence that is gathered under
the title, My Hand Outstretched... In counter-balance
to the early films are Amor and The Hedge Theater. R.B.)
"Amor uses themes of cutting and sewing as metaphors.
Cloth is cut and fabric is sewn; shrubs are trimmed and
hedges from majestic garden archways; and a male figure
claps his hands as if to signal a sync cue on which there
is a visual cut. Central to this short work are the complex
emotions surrounding love, separation, and the metonymic
twinning of objects, including that of edited image and
sutured sound." Susan Oxtoby
Some years after filming Amor, I returned to Rome and
found the source for a new film in the architecture of
Borromini and in a grove of trees with empty bird cages.
(A grove of trees, a 'rocollo', in which hunters would
set out cages with decoys, so-called 'richiami', whose
song attracted other birds). The buoyant spaces of these
cupolas, the sewing of a buttonhole and the invisible
bird hunt are all elements in the sustained dialogue of
The Hedge Theater. R.B.
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2002
November 30, 2002, at the Kino Piccadilly, Zurich
A screening of the Temenos Verein
Five Monthly Segments 1968-1969 by Robert Beavers
The Ground by Robert Beavers
A Portrait of Gilbert & George by Gregory J.
Markopoulos (from ENIAIOS III)
November 25, 2002
Bliss (1966) by Gregory J. Markopoulos
The film was shown at the Auditorium du Louvre, Paris,
in a program about the aesthetic of the icon in film.
November 17, 2002 at the 46th Regus London Film
Festival
ROBERT BEAVERS
Introduced by the film-maker.
Robert Beavers has created a body of work that aspires
to impart 'the serenity of a thought without words'. His
careful choice of the site or locations for filming often
displays a deep understanding of Greek landscape, culture
and history or draws upon sources from the history of
architecture. The physical actions or gestures of the
film-maker (or his human subject), the use of metaphorical
imagery and the intricate arrangement of the soundtrack,
fuse into a consummate film experience. In revising several
of his earlier films by tightly editing the image and
creating new soundtracks, Beavers has produced distilled
works that are precisely balanced and meticulously composed.
The correspondences of the images, shot over an extended
time period and in diverse locations, are cut together
to an invisible rhythm, intuitively measured against each
other. The presence of the film-maker, though not always
visually evident, is felt through every composition, gesture
and edit. There are few traces of narrative, rather each
montage of image and sound conveys a feeling or thought
in an innate and tacit manner. The films demand an openness
and concentration, but despite their apparent formal rigour
they retain an inherent humanity, communicated in the
moment of projection. This single screening is an extremely
rare opportunity to see works by a remarkable film-maker
who has not been shown in England for over 30 years.
(Mark Webber)
SOTIROS, Robert Beavers/USA-Greece-Switzerland
1977-96/25m
In Sotiros, there is an unspoken dialogue and a seen dialogue.
The first is held between the intertitles and the images;
the second is moved by the tripod and the emotions of
the film-makers. Both dialogues are interwoven with the
sunlight's movement as it circles the room, touching each
wall and corner, detached and intimate.
AMOR, Robert Beavers/USA-Italy-Switzerland 1980/15m
The recurring sounds of cutting cloth, hands clapping,
hammering, and tapping underline the associations of the
montage of short camera movements, which bring together
the making of a suit, the restoration of a building, and
details of a figure making a series of hand movements
and gestures.
THE HEDGE THEATER, Robert Beavers/USA-Italy-Switzerland
2002/19m
With this newly completed film, shot in Rome and at the
Naturtheatre in Salzburg, Beavers has completed the 18
film cycle, "My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance
and Sightless Measure".
THE GROUND, Robert Beavers/USA-Greece-Switzerland
2001/20m
'What lives in the space between the stones, in the space
cupped between my hand and my chest? ... With each swing
of the hammer I cut into the image, and the sound rises
from the chisel. A rhythm, marked by repetition and animated
by variation; strokes, of hammer and of fist, resounding
in dialogue.'
June 27 - 30 and July 4 - 7, 2002
Programs with films by G. J. Markopoulos and R. Beavers
were shown in Le cinéma visionnaire - L'avant-garde
americaine 1943 - 2000, Forum des Images, Paris.
March 10 and April 6, 2002
Three films by Robert Beavers were shown as a program
in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, New York.
March 12, 2002 at Berks Filmmakers, Reading, Pennsylvania
From the Notebook of... by R. Beavers and Ming
Green by G.J.Markopoulos
March 19, 2002
Tenth Annual Film Preservation Honors, Anthology Film
Archives, New York.
April 6 & 10, 2002 at the Festival Côté
court (Pantin, France)
Ming Green by G. J. Markopoulos was presented
on April 6th and The Ground by R. Beavers on April
10th in a program selected by Jonas Mekas.
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2001
November 1 - 11, 2001 in Griechische Kinotage /
Griechische Filmemacher der Diaspora, Kino Arsenal, Berlin.
Screenings of Ming Green, Bliss, Himself
as Herself, Swain, Twice A Man by G.
J. Markopoulos
October 13 & 14, 2001 at The New York Film Festival
Screening of The Ground by R. Beavers
May 6, 2001 at Walter Reade Theater, New York
Screening of Still Light, Sotiros, and
The Stoas by R. Beavers
May 4 & 5, 2001 at the Cleveland Cinematheque,
Cleveland Institute of Art
Screenings of From the Notebook of... by R. Beavers
and Ming Green, Twice A Man, and Bliss
by Gregory J. Markopoulos
April 23 & 24, 2001 at Binghamton University
and Cornell University.
Screenings of From the Notebook of... by R. Beavers
March 6 & 13, 2001 at 'Hellenism in Film', Princeton
University
Screenings of The Illiac Passion by G. J. Markopoulos
and Sotiros and The Ground by R. Beavers.
January 30 & February 1, 2001 in the 30th Int.
Film Festival Rotterdam.
Screening of From the Notebook of..., Amor,
and The Ground by Robert Beavers
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