[MGSA-L] Upcoming event: Screening of Gregory Markopoulos' "Trilogy" and "Swain"

Syrimis, George george.syrimis at yale.edu
Wed Feb 13 05:46:33 PST 2013


Sunday, February 17, 5:00 PM

Screening of  "The Trilogy: "The trilogy: Du Sang, de la volupté et de la mort" (1947-48) & "Swain" (1950)

Directed by Gregory Markopoulos

A major but somewhat mysterious figure in the history of American avant-garde cinema, Markopoulos was part of the post-WWII re-emergence of experimental film which also included Kenneth Anger and Stan Brakhage. Like the similarly precocious Anger, the teenaged Markopoulos made his first film in 1947, the ambitious trilogy, "Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort/Of Blood, of Desire and of Death", a 70-minute feature based partly on a novel by Pierre Louys. Markopoulos wrote his own screenplays and also photographed and edited his own works. His best-known and most influential films are "Twice a Man" (1963) and "The Iliac Passion" (1966). Distinguished by subtle but sensuous homoeroticism and a haunting use of loop printing and double exposure, these films explore cinema's capacity to represent time, subjectivity and myth. As with many avant-garde filmmakers, Markopoulos moved increasingly toward structural film as the decade waned (as in "Gammelion" 1968), focusing on the formal parameters of film to enable "new ways of seeing". He also made several collage-style film portraits of prominent cultural figures, among them "Political Portraits"(1969) and "Galaxie" (1966), which featured 30 three-minute portraits of figures including W.H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Jonas Mekas and Susan Sontag. arkopoulos was an active and visible presence in American "underground" film of the 1960s. He wrote occasionally for the journal "Film Culture", taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, and featured figures from Andy Warhol to Taylor Mead in his films. After moving to Switzerland late in the decade, however, Markopoulos began to sever ties with colleagues and audiences alike. Markopoulos continued working on films which, as yet, have been little seen, but several of his greatest efforts are part of the permanent collections of the Art Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives and the Cinematheque Francaise.


Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
53 Wall Street, New Haven

Free and open to the public.

The event is a collaboration with the The Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, Films at the Whitney, and the Film Studies Program.

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