Eniaios (1997)

Interesting facts

Eniaios is a 22-part silent avant-garde film by Gregory Markopoulos, completed in 1991 and released in parts starting in 2004. The film is made from previously released and unreleased films by Markopoulos, arranged into 22 orders totaling 80 hours of footage. An extensive restoration effort on the film began several years after Markopoulos's death in 1992, and as prints of each order have been created, they have been presented in an ongoing premiere, taking place every four years at a remote site near Lyssarea, Greece.

Production

Markopoulos had the idea for Eniaios in 1974, conceiving of a "complete order" of his films. In April 1987 he began focusing on re-editing them. Eniaios contains footage from his previously released works, as well as 67 unreleased films. Markopoulos completed Eniaios in Switzerland in 1991, with the entire work comprising 80 hours of footage.

Markopoulos's editing aimed to completely isolate the images from his work. He removed the sound from his films, as well as effects which combine images like superimpositions or dissolves. Clear or black leader separates distinct images, such that they never touch. Each image is sustained for no more than a few frames. The brief articulation of an image leaves a lingering afterimage which may interact with the following image.

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