A lecture by the filmmaker Robert Beavers about the Temenos archive, one of experimental film's most significant collections of film prints and papers.
Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos at the Temenos site. Photo: Temenos Archive.
In this lecture and conversation, the American filmmaker Robert Beavers will discuss The Temenos, the monographic archive he co-founded in Switzerland with his long-time partner, the Greek-American filmmaker, Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-1992). Markopoulos and Beavers are both filmmakers dedicated to the physical medium of film (what Markopoulos called “film as film”), and the archive preserves their work, comprising camera originals, 16mm and 35mm projection prints, and other related documents (including writings). Beavers will discuss the archival project, the restoration work (mainly of Markopoulos’s magnum opus, Eniaios, printed but not completed upon the filmmaker’s death), and the Temenos screenings that he organises in the Peloponnese, Greece.
Co-presented by the Power Institute and Film Studies at the University of Sydney. Robert Beavers and Ute Aurand's visit has been made possible by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Films and the Goethe Institute Australia.
The program, The Films of Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers and Gregory J. Markopoulos, will be presented at AGNSW on 28-29 October and at the Australian Cinémathèque at GoMA on 3-5 November. Ute Aurand's films will screen at ACMI's ART+FILM on Tuesday 8 November; Gregory J. Markopoulos' and Robert Beavers' films will screen at the Melbourne Cinematheque on Wednesday 9 November.
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Robert Beavers
Robert Beavers is an American filmmaker who has been working between Europe and America since the 1960s. Growing up in Massachusetts, he made his first film at the age of 16 in New York, where he met the filmmaker Gregory J Markopoulos. Beavers and Markopoulos relocated to Europe together in 1967 and eventually founded the Temenos Archive, now based in Ulster, Switzerland. Beavers lives with the filmmaker Ute Aurand between Berlin and Massachusetts, USA.