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July 4, 2014

Film as Film at Anthology Film Archives

Markopoulos season at Anthology Film Archives, September 2014

The first events to take place following the publication of Film as Film will be a season of four screenings at Anthology Film Archives in New York, from 8-13 September 2014. Beginning with an evening of Markopoulos’ earliest films, the programmes will continue with the first films made by the filmmaker after his relocation to Europe.

“There is no language. There is no art. There is no knowledge. There is but film as film: the beginning and the eternal moment.” (The Intuition Space, 1973)

Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-92) is one of the most original filmmakers to emerge from the post-war avant-garde. His films, which often translated literary or mythological sources to a contemporary context, are celebrated for their extraordinary creativity, the sensuous use of colour and innovations in cinematic form. A co-founder of the New American Cinema Group, Markopoulos was actively involved in nurturing New York’s film community before moving to Europe at the end of the 1960s to pursue a more individual path. Firmly believing that a filmmaker should be responsibility for all aspects of his work, he developed the idea of Temenos, a monographic archive for the preservation, presentation and study of his films.

In parallel to his filmmaking, Markopoulos was a prolific writer whose articles were circulated in journals, self-published editions or programme notes. This screening series celebrates the publication of Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos, a new book that gathers together some ninety out-of-print or previously unavailable texts by the filmmaker.

This is an extremely rare opportunity to see Markopoulos’ earliest works, shown alongside some of the first films made in Europe following his departure from the US in 1967. Robert Beavers and Mark Webber will be present and the book will be available for purchase at the screenings.

Curated by Mark Webber, in collaboration with Robert Beavers and Temenos Archive.

Visit the calendar for details of each screening, or view the programme on the Anthology Film Archives website.

July 3, 2014

VP Recommends 1: Media City 2014

The Visible Press Recommends : Media City 2014

The Media City Film Festival in Windsor, Ontario, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The programme, which includes Robert Beavers’ most recent film Listening to the Space in My Room, runs from 8-12 July and can be viewed online here.

Media City Film Festival is an annual international festival of film and video art presented in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan since 1994. Each year the festival attracts filmmakers and audience members from around the world to participate in five days of screenings, live performances, exhibitions and artist’s discussions. Over the years the festival has achieved critical acclaim and international recognition for its “sheer excellence in programming” and is recognized as a leading venue in the world of artist’s film and video.

www.mediacityfilmfestival.com

The Visible Press is an independent imprint for books on cinema and writings by filmmakers. Our first book, Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos, edited by Mark Webber with a foreword by P. Adams Sitney, was published in September 2014. This was followed by Peter Gidal’s Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966–2016 (April 2016), Slow Writing: Thom Andersen on Cinema (September 2017), and Telling Invents Told by Lis Rhodes (June 2019).

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March 27, 2014

“Film as Film” coming soon

Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos
Edited by Mark Webber, with a foreword by P. Adams Sitney
The Visible Press, September 2014

Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos contains some ninety out-of-print or previously unavailable articles by the Greek-American filmmaker who, as a contemporary of Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol, was at the forefront of a movement that established a truly independent form of cinema. Beginning with his early writings on the American avant-garde and auteurs such as Dreyer, Bresson and Mizoguchi, it also features numerous essays on Markopoulos’ own practice, and on films by Robert Beavers, that were circulated only in journals, self-published editions or programme notes. The texts become increasingly metaphysical and poetic as the filmmaker pursued his ideal of Temenos, an archive and screening space to be located at a remote site in the Peloponnese where his epic final work could be viewed in harmony with the Greek landscape. Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-1992) is a unique figure in film history, whose life’s work stands in testament to his strength of vision and commitment to the medium.

ISBN: 978-0-9928377-0-9
Price £20 / €25 / $30
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Hardcover
220 x 141 x 35 mm
560 pages, including 16pp of colour images

Square-backed case, debossed front cover
Ribbon marker, head and tail bands
Individually shrinkwrapped

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January 1, 2014

About The Visible Press

The Visible Press is a new imprint for books on cinema and writings by filmmakers. Based in London, the press is managed by film curators Mark Webber and María Palacios Cruz. Our first publication, “Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos”, edited by Mark Webber with a foreword by P. Adams Sitney, was published on 1 September 2014.

Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1967

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