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Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the “forest.” There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York “underground scene” who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound , finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.

The.Illiac.Passion.1967.Gregory.J.Markopoulos.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 31 min
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One of the most vertiginous of Markopoulos’s interior landscape studies, Himself as Herself is based loosely on Balzac’s Séraphita. The film consists of a shimmering, nearly plotless evocation of gender identity in flux, and it contains some of Markopoulos’s most haunting, densely interlaced images. Markopoulos portrays a hermaphrodite body, its movements, postures and gestures or expressions, a study of a highly stylized inner landscape that takes Bresson’s ideals to their ultimate conclusions. This film is dedicated to the American artist Emlen Pope Etting and features a musical excerpt from Poulenc’s “Gloria.”

Terrible blown out audio and lighting.

1.02GB | 1h 00m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/09B375800C201A3/Himself_As_Herself_-_Gregory_J._Markopoulos_1967.mkv

Language(s):No dialogue
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A modern recreation of the legend of Hyppolytus subtly reveals homosexual and incestual motives among its three protagonists as it mingles reality and memory. Particularly noteworthy is the attempt to portray thoughts and flashes of memory by inserting bursts of single-frame, almost subliminal shots into the main sequence which proceeds in different time and space.

706MB | 46m 39s | 690×570 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C452AC03F8AFC7F/Twice_a_Man_(1963)_Gregory_Markopoulos.mkv
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https://fikper.com/kBJoCoObwM/Twice_a_Man_(1963)_Gregory_Markopoulos.mkv

Language:English
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Sorrows, US expatriate director Gregory J. Markopoulos’ 1969 film, shares his earlier films’—Bliss (1966) and Gammelion (1968)—fascination with significant structures and the lives of those who lived in or constructed them.

In the case of Sorrows, the mansion, Villa Tribschen, filmed from the outside and inside, viewed from a cold, frigid landscape, and within with the warmth of furniture, sculpture, art, and windows which provided natural light from all four sides of the house on each level, was built by King Ludwig of Bavaria—most often described as the “mad” king—for the composer Richard Wagner.

If Luchino Visconti’s great film is to be believed, Ludwig’s madness consisted mostly of loving music, particularly the operas of Wagner, architecture, and attractive boys, as well as believing he could offer his citizens culture instead of politics. All very dangerous, apparently, and very expensive, particularly given the costs of the wars his advisors preferred to support. And clearly it is just Ludwig’s loves that has attracted the director to this house, along with the sorrows that both Ludwig and Wagner were made to suffer for their pursuit of the arts.

The first half of this film, the entire scored to a motif from Beethoven’s Eroica symphony (Symphony No. 3 in E flat major), moves rhythmically back and forth with frames depicting the surrounding fields of snow, barren trees, gray skies, and the outer shell of the house in Lucerne. Alternating with these momentary images are patterned patches or blots of color or black and white without the structures to which they were originally attached, representing, in those moments, something like George Seraut’s paintings in reverse, instead of the blotches of color building up figures and architectonic patterns, the pattern’s figures giving way to the residual colors, blacks, and grays.

When Markopoulos’ camera moves indoors, the images become more central, the colors richer in depth are overlaid with white sculptural images, the scored music sheets of the “Siegfried Idyll,” and a painted portrait of Cosima, Franz Listz’s daughter, the former wife of the noted Wagner conductor Hans von Bülow, and later Wagner’s wife. The house, accordingly, was filled literally itself layered with sorrowful (and sometimes joyful) music and affairs of the heart, which Markopoulos visually portrays by turning his images themselves into pulsing in time with the musical composition. As Art Forum writer Rebekah Rutkoff observes, “the overlapping dissolves build in clusters with increasing layers and blinking force around the lengths of vertical windows.” The director himself describes how the film was “scored” to the music which accompanies it: “Each phrase is composed of certain frames that are similar to the harmonic units found in musical composition.”

The result is a bit like the pulsing hearts—Wagner’s, Cosima’s, von Bülow’s, and, of course, Ludwig’s from his nearby castles of Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein. Love and death, just as in Wagner’s great operas, are the themes of this inside/outside tribute to the house Ludwig built to his symbolic and spiritual “father,” transforming him into a kind of illegitimate Siegfried, a disguised son of the gods and Wagner himself, the name also of Wagner’s real son.

86.7MB | 5m 43s | 698×570 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/533D3A97AD1FBE6/Sorrows_(1969)_Gregory_Markopoulos.mkv
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The film is based on the novella by the same name, written by Ilias Venezis and reflects the innermost bitterness of the Asia Minor Disaster. The doctor Dimitris Vellis and his younger wife, Eirini, who come from Asia Minor, settle in Anavyssos, as do many other refugees. Eirini, instead of cultivating foodstuffs – grain, grapevines or garden produce, as the government recommends, prefers to cultivate roses.

Gregory Markopoulos had kept a diary on the making of the film and the period of its shooting. James Paris had invited the young Markopoulos from America to direct the film. The result of the work, however, didn’t satisfy the young director, who ended their collaboration near the end of the filming. Paris made some complementary shots with the assistance of Grigoris Grigoriou, who undertook the editing as well. We can’t really tell what the copy that was found in the archives of the producer represents exactly – and the film never made it to the theaters.

888MB | 1h 04mn | 720×536 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/274039989FFF19C/Galini_(Gregory_J._Markopoulos,_1958).mkv

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:None

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Synopsis
Things spin: amusement park rides, a phonograph record. A man wakes, shaves, and takes a phone call. Another man, in a kimono, walks in the woods, stops, and opens a small decorative box on the forest floor. People at an amusement park called Little Harlem enjoy themselves. A man walks through another amusement park, called Cavalcade Worlds, as midway rides spin. At a house, an older woman cleans; a pre-teen girl sets the table; a teenaged boy showers. After he dresses, he holds a candle high above his head and walks swiftly toward a young man standing bare-chested, his arms extended. A man arrives home where the girl has set the table. The youth sleeps. Christmas?

195MB | 13mn 12s | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/9D959DAEA9030BD/Christmas.U.S.A.1949.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:None

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In early spring of 1966, in anticipation of his eventual departure from the Greenwich Village apartment in which he had been living for a number of years, [Markopoulos] filmed the revelatory seven-minute interior portrait Ming Green , titled for the deep spruce color of the apartment’s walls. Ming Green was edited entirely in-camera, and its precise rhythmic blossoming is based on overlapping dissolves and longer flashes, rather than single-frame clusters. The film’s complex harmonic structure, however — as well as its incorporation of often static, “single” images that may be comprised of more than one frame — echoes the montage techniques developed in Twice a Man (1963). Interweaving mementos with foliage, color, and light, Ming Green suggests the inextricability of past and present: despite its exquisite lightness, it could represent the passage of hours and days rather than minutes. -Kristin Jones, Millennium Film Journal, 1998

A pristine 16mm print projected and filmed by an HD video camera. Flicker is definitely visible, but otherwise the color and clarity are quite good. Until this gets a proper video transfer and release (never?) this might be the best we’ll have.

208MB | 6mn 53s | 1320×880 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/060573918DA1E61/Ming_Green_-_Gregory_J._Markopoulos_-_1966.mkv

Language(s):English
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