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The world premiere of the first four cycles of Gregory J. Markopoulos¹
monumental ENIAIOS will take in the Greek countryside over three all night
projections from 25-27th June 2004. Full details below.
Advanced booking is essential if you are interested to travel to Greece for
this unique event. If you are planning to attend, please contact Temenos
Association at the address below for advice on limited accommodation in the
region. The area is remote and camping near the site is recommended.
Olympic, Hellas, British Airways and easyJet fly to Athens from London.
Prior to the outdoor projections, a partial retrospective featuring the
original versions of nine of Markopoulos' major works will be shown at the
National Film Theatre in London from 16-21st April. Full details of this
programme will be announced soon.
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THE MARKOPOULOS TEMENOS
OUTDOOR PROJECTIONS IN GREECE, 25-27th JUNE 2004
1. ENIAIOS I-IV, the first four cycles of Gregory J. Markopoulos¹ final and
culminating work will be shown in an open-air premiere at the Temenos site,
near the village of Lyssaraia in Arcadia on the 25th to 27th of June 2004.
This will be the first occasion to approach a film by Markopoulos in the
location for which it was created, screened in the form in which he left it.
2. Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-1992) was one of the first to articulate and
realise the ideal of the filmmaker as creator of every aspect of a film. He
also conceived the idea how his films should be presented, giving to this
the name TEMENOS, a classical Greek term meaning "a piece of land set
apart", or "a sacred grove" with reference to the tradition of Asklepios,
the god of healing to whom many sanctuaries were devoted.
3. Markopoulos¹ contributions to film form began with his earliest work of
the 1940s, developed through subsequent decades, and culminated in ENIAIOS,
on which he worked during the final years of his life. His important
innovations, editing with the smallest unit of film (the single frame), the
simultaneous narrative of past, present, and future, and his most individual
use of colour, are all directed towards the representation of complex
emotions.
4. Markopoulos made his first 8mm film, A Christmas Carol, at the age of
twelve. He attended lectures by Josef von Sternberg at the University of
Southern California and made his first 16mm film, Psyche, in the late 1940s.
In the 1950s he was occupied with a 35mm feature film based on the novel,
Serenity, by the Greek writer Ilias Venezis. In the early 1960s, he was a
founding member together with Jonas Mekas of the New American Cinema group
in New York, formed to free filmmakers of production restraints. At this
time he created some of his most well-known films, Twice a Man (1963), The
Illiac Passion (1964-1967), inspired by Greek myths. In 1967, Markopoulos
moved to Europe and continued his innovative filmmaking with numerous works
including Gammelion (1968), The Mysteries (1968), Political Portraits
(1969), Sorrows (1969), Genius (1970).
5. Increasingly disillusioned with the state of independent filmmaking and
its distribution, he withdrew all his films and conceived the idea of the
TEMENOS with the filmmaker Robert Beavers as the form for archiving and
presenting their work. Beginning in 1980, Markopoulos and Beavers
established TEMENOS, where they held film presentations as open-air
screenings in the terraced fields near Lyssaraia in the Peloponnese. These
screenings took place every year until 1986 and represented a significant
departure from the usual form of screening films.
6. Gregory J. Markopoulos dedicated the final decades of his filmmaking to
the creation of ENIAIOS, a monumental work of one hundred films, composed of
twenty-two cycles with a total projection time of eighty hours. He created
this work exclusively for the Temenos site in the Peloponnese and the
editing was completed one year before his death. The films were left
unprinted.
7. Markopoulos gained a freedom of vision through the idea of TEMENOS and
extended the radical film techniques of his earlier work. Each ENIAIOS cycle
is composed of meticulously selected and interrelated passages from his
earlier work and new films. In his words, "S a crystallisation of Time;
indeed a crystallisation in Time".
8. The early films of Gregory J. Markopoulos have been reintroduced to a
wider audience through presentations by various institutions, including
Whitney Museum of American Art, Istanbul Biennial, Cinematheque Ontario,
International Rotterdam Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Auditorium du
Louvre and the TEMENOS Association in Zurich. This activity continues with
the presentation of six films by Markopoulos at La Casa Encendidas for ARCO
Madrid, February 6th-15th, 2004 and a partial retrospective at the National
Film Theatre, London in April 2004.
9. With the premiere of ENIAIOS I-IV in the Temenos open-air screenings, we
return to the site that inspired Markopoulos with the idea to create a total
unity of all his films in ENIAIOS. It was Markopoulos¹ vision to build a
permanent projection space at the Temenos site for this work. The premiere
of the first four cycles is dedicated to his vision. The three evenings in
the terraced fields of the Temenos provide a unique opportunity to view
Markopoulos¹ films in a pristine atmosphere, with a freedom of seeing.
10. Since Lyssaraia is in a remote area of Arcadia, in the Peloponnese,
accommodation is limited. Lodgings must be confirmed in advance either for
the campsite that will be available near the screenings or for the limited
number of hotel rooms in the neighbouring villages of Rafti, Paloumba,
Loutra Iraias, Dimitsana and Stemnitsa. Lyssaraia can be reached either from
Athens (4 hours by bus) via Tripolis and Dimitsana or from Patras via
Olympia and Loutra Iraias.
11. Please confirm your attendance and type of lodging by March 31st 2004 to
TEMENOS Inc. P.O. BOX 539, Peck Slip Station, New York, N.Y. 10272 or
TEMENOS Association, P.O. BOX 166, CH-8024 Zurich, Switzerland or via
e-mail: <[log in to unmask]> You will then receive a definitive offer for
lodgings and further details. The Temenos film presentations begin at 9:30
p.m. A small buffet is offered on the first evening at 8:00 p.m.
www.the-temenos.org
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