The Temenos

  • Gregory Markopoulos
  • Temenos Screenings
  • The Temenos
  • Connect
  • Robert Beavers
  • Support Us
  • Biography
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography

 

A Christmas Carol

1940
8mm, black-and-white, silent;
5 minutes (18 frames per second)
Based on the story by Charles Dickens.

 

Du sang, de la volupté et de la mort

(Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death)
1947 - 48
A trilogy
Dedicated to Carter H. Wolff, Jr.

 

Christmas U.S.A.

(also known as Xmas-USA-1949)
1949
16mm film, black-and-white, silent; 8 minutes.
Dedicated to Curtis Harrington.

 

Jackdaw

1950
16mm film, color and black-and-white, silent;
14 minutes.
(Film does not exist in this form; footage may have been incorporated into Flowers of Asphalt.)

 

The Dead Ones

1949
35mm film (nitrate negative), black-and-white, silent; 28 minutes (unfinished).
Dedicated to Jean Cocteau.

 

L’Arbre aux champignons

(The Tree of Mushrooms)
1950
16mm film, black-and-white, silent
(unfinished; original destroyed in the film lab)
Filmed in Paris

 

Swain

(previously known as Rain black, My Love)
1950
16mm film, color, sound; 24 minutes
Made in collaboration with Robert C. Freeman, Jr.
Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel Fanshawe.

 

Flowers of Asphalt

1951
16mm film, black-and-white,silent; 7 minutes
Suggested music to be played during film:
"Concerto Grosso" by Ludwig van Beethoven

 

Eldora

1953
8mm film, color, siilent; 11 minutes
Dedicated to Robert C. Freeman, Jr. for his birthday.

 

Father’s Day

1952
16mm film color and black-and-white, silent;
approximately 6 minutes (unfinished)

 

Serenity

1961
35mm film, color, sound;
originally edited in two versions
Version I, 70 minutes; Version II, 90 minutes

 

Twice a Man

1963
16mm, color, sound; 49 minutes
Dedicated to Clara Hoover. Based on the story of Hippolytos.

 

Rushes for “The Illiac Passion”

circa 1964
16mm film, color, silent; 12 minutes
Preserved by Musuem of Modern Art, New York.

 

Galaxie

1966
16mm film, color, sound; 82 minutes
Dedicated to my father, John Markopoulos.

 

Ming Green

1966.
16mm film color, sound; 7 minutes.
Deicated to Stan Brakhage.

 

Test with masques for “The Illiac Passion”

1966. 16mm film, color, silent; 3 minutes.
Temenos Archive, Zurich

 

Bliss

1967. 16mm film, color, sound; 6 minutes.
Dedicated to Alice Burkhard.
Filmed in the Church of St. John, Hydra, Greece.
Temenos Archive, Zurich

 

Eros, O Basileus (Eros, the King)

1967.
16mm film, color, sound; 45 minutes.
Dedicated to Ben Weber.

 

Himself As Herself

1967.
16mm film, color, sound; 60 minutes.
Dedicated to Emlen Etting.

 

The Illiac Passion

1964-67.
16mm film, color, sound; 92 minutes.
Inspired by Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound.

 

Through a Lens Brightly : Mark Turbyfill

1967.
16mm film, color, sound; 15 minutes.
Mark Turbyfill.
Filmed in Chicago.
Temenos Archive, Zurich.

 

The Divine Damnation

(original title: The Damnation of Damien),
edited in 1968, printed in 1972.
16mm film, color, sound; 57 minutes.

 

Gammelion

1968.
16mm film, color, sound; 55 minutes.
Deicated to Gregg Sharits.

 

Index – Hans Richter

1969.
16mm film, color, sound; 30 minutes.
Dedicated to Nigel Gosling.

 

The Mysteries

1968.
16mm film, color, sound; 80 minutes.
Music by Hugo Wol

 

The Olympian

1969. 16mm film, color, silent; 23 minutes.
Cast : Alberto Moravia. Filmed in Rome.
Temenos Archive, Zurich.

 

Political Portraits

1969.
16mm film, color, sound; 70 minutes.
Dedicated to Dieter Meier.

 

Sorrows

1969.
16mm film, color, sound; 6 minutes.
Dedicated to Wilhelm and Birgit Hein.

 

Alph

1970.
16mm film, color, silent; 15 minutes.
Edited but unprinted.

 

Genius

1970.
16mm film, color, silent; 60 minutes.
With Leonor Fini, David Hockney and Daniel Kahnweiler.
Based upon the theme of Faust. filmed in Paris and London.
Restored and printed by Temenos Archive, Zurich.

 

Hagiographia

(first version)
1970.
16mm film, color, silent; 60 minutes.
Filmed in Mistra, Greece.
Preserved in Anthology Film Archives, New York.

 

Moment

1970.
16mm film, color, silent; 8 minutes.
With Dame Barbara Hepworth.
Filmed in London.
Preserved in Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna.

 

Cimabue! Cimabue!

1971.
16mm film, color, silent, running time unknown.
Edited but unprinted.
With Annigoni, Umberto Baldini, Bertolini, Carlo Bettochi, Silvio Loffredo.
Filmed in Florence.
Orginal reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

 

Doldertal 7

1971.
16mm film, color, silent; 8 minutes.
Edited but not printed.
With Carola Gideon-Weckler.
Filmed in Zurich.
Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zürich

 

Saint Acteon

1971.
16mm film, color, silent. 12 minutes.
With Sir Harold Acton.
Filmed in the gardens of the Villa La Pietra, Fiesole, Italy.

 

35, Boulevard General Koenig

1971.
16mm film, color, silent. 8 minutes.
Edited but unprinted.

 

Hagiographia

(second version),
1973.
16mm film, color, silent; 60 minutes.
The entire film was rephotographed and edited but is unprinted.
Filmed in Mistra, Greece.

 

Heracles

1973.
16mm film, color, silent; unknown length.
Edited but unprinted.
Filmed in the apartment of Alban Berg, Vienna.

 

ENIAIOS

1948 - 1990.
22 film cycles; 16mm film, color, silent. circa 80 hours

 

 

© 2023 Temenos Inc. | Impressum | Contact | Home