“You cannot apply the principles of painting to a medium that is not painting.” (Paul Sharits).

Film has laws of its own, but along with the other arts in the period around 1960 it searched for certain “zero points” that didn't revolve around nothing, but the whole. This three-part film programme, curated by Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit, includes works from the period between 1958 and 2021 – by Stephanie Barber, Yves-André Delubac, Hollis Frampton, Jorge Lorenzo, Ernst Schmidt Jr., Aldo Tambellini, Joyce Wieland and many more. It also offers rare insight into Gregory Markopoulos’s cinematic life’s work ENIAIOS (1947–91), presented by the film artist Robert Beavers.

Programme

5 pm  – Part 1

• Jorge Lorenzo 1/48’’ (2008) 35mm, colour, sound, about 1 min
• Viktoria Schmid A Proposal to project (2016) 16mm, colour, sound, 2 min
• Peter Kubelka Arnulf Rainer (1958-60) 35mm, b/w, sound 7 min
• Stan Brakhage Mothlight (1963) 16mm, colour, silent, 4 min
• Ernst Schmidt jr. Weiß (1968) 16mm, b/w, silent, 1 min 20 sec
• Aldo Tambellini Black Trip (1966) 16mm, b/w, sound, 4 min
• Ernst Schmidt jr. Filmreste (1965-67) 16mm, b/w, sound, 10 min
• Aldo Tambellini Black Trip 2 (1967) 16mm, b/w, sound, 3 min
• Joyce Wieland Handtinting (1967/68) 16mm, b/w & tinted, silent, 6 min
• Paul Sharits T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968) 16mm, colour, sound, 12 min - Preserved by Anthology Film Archives

BREAK6:30 pm  – Part  2

• Morgan Fisher Projection Instructions (1976) 16mm, b/w, sound, 4 min
• Hollis Frampton Surface Tension (1968) 16mm, colour, sound, 9 min
• Yves-André Delubac Le Chant des signes (Song of Signs) (1972) 16mm/Digital, b/w, sound, 17 min
• Gustav Deutsch Film ist mehr als Film (1996) 35mm, colour, sound, 1 min
• Stephanie Barber Another Horizon (2021)16mm/Digital, colour, sound, 9 min
• Jorge Lorenzo On the Road by Jack Kerouac (2013) 35mm, b/w, silent, 14 min

BREAK8 pm  – Part 3

Artist Talk with Robert Beavers, filmmaker and co-founder of the Temenos Archive where, among other activities, the restoration and preservation of ENIAIOS is being conducted. (In English)

• Gregory Markopoulos Bliss (1967) 16mm, colour, sound, 6min
• Gregory Markopoulos ENIAIOS (1947-91) 16mm, colour, silent. Complete duration of the work: 80 hours. Excerpt: 2 reels, ca. 50 min [long version of Bliss and Portrait of Alberto Moravia]

The “NOTHINGTOSEENESS - Void/White/Silence” exhibition is open until midnight on 4 Dec.