[MGSA-L] Markopoulos screenings, NYC, March 3 and 5

Rebekah Rutkoff rrutkoff at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 12:49:38 PST 2018


Dear Colleagues,

Those in the NYC area might be interested in these upcoming Markopoulos
screenings.

Best,
Rebekah Rutkoff

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*GALAXIEDIRECTOR: GREGORY MARKOPOULOS*

Sat March 3 at 7
Mon March 5 at 7
1966 / 82min / 16mm

METROGRAPH/No. 7 Ludlow Street

Presented by filmmaker Robert Beavers at the Saturday, March 3rd screening

Gregory Markopoulos, one of the most revered and acclaimed of American
avant garde filmmakers, decamped for Europe in 1967, and, angry at the
state of exhibition, removed his works from distribution in the mid-1970s.
To this day, every screening of a Markopoulos movie is an event—and this
one is no exception. Screening one night only and presented by filmmaker
Robert Beavers, *Galaxie* is among Markopoulos’ supreme achievements:
silent save for the chime of a ritual bell, it collects disarming filmed
portraits of thirty men and women of the New York art world in the
mid-’60s, including W.H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, Shirley
Clarke, and Jasper Johns, and pillars of the filmmaking community like
Jonas Mekas and the Kuchar brothers, images edited and overlaid in-camera
by Markopoulos and his trusty Bolex. A singular celebration of an
extraordinary, brilliant, and fiercely uncompromised body of film art.
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