Friday 7 March – Saturday 8 March 2008

Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928–1992) was a key figure in the evolution of the New American Cinema of the 1960s, an archetypal personal filmmaker who counted Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage and Maya Deren amongst his contemporaries. His ravishing films are a complex combination of masterful camerawork and editing with a strong vision rooted in myth and poetry. After relocating from New York to Greece in 1967, he planned the construction of an archive and film theatre in Lyssaraia, Greece - The Temenos - a setting that would be in harmony with his extraordinary films. Markopoulos was convinced that his choice of this beautiful, remote location should be an essential element in preparing for the viewing of ENIAIOS. This special pair of Tate Modern screenings anticipates a series of open air screenings of Markopoulos’s ENIAIOS to be held at the Temenos site, near Lyssaraia in Arcadia 27-29 June 2008, presented by his partner, the filmmaker Robert Beavers.

• Gregory J Markopoulos: Portraits of Artists   Friday 7 March 2008
• Gregory J Markopoulos: The Illiac Passion   Saturday 8 March 2008