[MGSA-L] Robert Beavers Presents Two Films/April 4, Princeton

[Rebekah Rutkoff]

*Monday, April 4, 2016*




*Robert Beavers Presents Two Films in Princeton*

*Followed by Q+A and a reception at the Garden Theater*

*Free and open to the public*



6pm, James Stewart Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street

*The Mysteries*, Gregory Markopoulos, 1968, 16mm, 80 minutes



*The Mysteries* was made in Munich during the same period in which
Markopoulos directed two opera pieces for German television. In *Artforum*,
Kristin Jones described the film as “… a mournful work in which, as in many
of the earlier films, the rhythmic repetition of imagery evokes poetic
speech, and changes in costume emphasize shifts in time, space, and
emotion. Here, a young man’s struggles with memories of love and
intimations of death are set alternately to deafening silence and the music
of Wagner.”



8pm, The Garden Theater, 160 Nassau Street

*From the Notebook of…,* Robert Beavers, 1971/1998, DCP, 48 minutes



Often considered Beavers’ first masterpiece, *From the Notebook of…* turns
inward to reveal its own structure as it reflects on the practice of making
art in general. Inspired by the notebooks of da Vinci (as well as Vasari's
and Valery's writings on the artist), the film combines shots of Beavers’
own notes, instructions and tools with locations in Florence depicted in da
Vinci’s notebooks. A unique self-portrait of the artist at work in a city
as famous for invention as it is for beauty.



*Robert Beavers* (b. 1949) is an American avant-garde filmmaker best known
for *My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure*, an
epic cycle comprising 18 of his films (many later re-edited) made since
1967. Born in Massachusetts, Beavers has spent much of his life in Europe,
where he moved with his partner Gregory Markopoulos in 1968. Retrospectives
of his work have been presented at institutions including the Whitney
Museum, the Tate Modern and the Austrian Film Museum.



*Gregory Markopoulos* (1928-1992) was an American avant-garde filmmaker, a
co-founder of the New American Cinema Group and a prolific writer. After
leaving the US for self-imposed exile in Europe, Markopoulos withdrew his
films from circulation and his work went largely unseen for almost 30 years.
Since 2004, portions of his 80 hour magnum opus, *Eniaios*, designed for
exclusive screening in Arcadia, Greece, at an event and site called the
Temenos, have been presented every four years. The next iteration will be
presented in June 2016.


*Sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Gauss Seminars
in Criticism, the Lewis Center for the Arts** and the Interdisciplinary
Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton (IHUM)*
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