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Thursday 04.12.25

Museum Night: Charlotte Bouckaert

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24 12 05 KH MUSEUMNACHT VRIJWILLIGERS 55

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Friday 05.12.25

Dutch Language Café

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Friday 05.12.25

Friday Evenings:

broei.lab unfolds: showcase

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Monday 08.12.25

Art Cinema OFFoff:

Oona Libens: Pallium

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Friday 12.12.25

Dutch Language Café

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Friday 12.12.25

Friday Evenings:

Anaïs Berck: Copyright for Trees

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Monday 15.12.25

Art Cinema OFFoff:

Gregory Markopoulos: Twice a Man Twice

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Thursday 18.12.25

Double Book Launch: Fever, Form, and Incident

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Schermafbeelding 2025 11 28 om 10 01 59

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Tuesday 27.01.26

Henry van de Velde Awards 26

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Schermafbeelding 2025 11 14 om 11 41 51

Agenda: Archive

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Monday 01.12.25

Creative path to self-care

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Monday 01.12.25

Art Cinema OFFoff:

An evening around Toshio Matsumoto

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Everything Visible Is Empty 1975 576p Bluray x264 De MT 026

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Monday 15.12.25

Art Cinema OFFoff:

Gregory Markopoulos: Twice a Man Twice

Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928−1992) grew up in Toledo, Ohio, as the child of Greek immigrants, but returned to Greece in 1967. After twenty years of making films in the United States, he decided, based on his idealistic vision of artistic and professional independence, to bring his films together in the Temenos Film Project. He stubbornly guarded the release of his oeuvre together with his partner, filmmaker Robert Beavers, which meant that his films were ultimately rarely screened.

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Twice a man — © Temenos

In 2011 – 2012, Art Cinema OFFoff already presented a four-part retrospective of his work (1, 2, 3, 4). Markopoulos’ oeuvre has since attained iconic status within the landscape of experimental cinema. Twice a Man plays a central role in his body of work as it already hints at his later vision of“film as film” through the condensed concentration on flashes of individual frames, which Markopoulos calls“film phrases” or“thought images.” From the late 1960s onwards, his idea of“film as film” was to concentrate radically on the essential parameters of the medium.

Less well known is that Markopoulos showed an alternative, performative version of the film in 1966. He projected two copies of Twice a Man side by side, one running forward and one running backward. The sound is only preserved on the projector showing the film forwards. At the midpoint of the film, both copies show the same image, although one is reversed. This alternative version was restaged for the first time earlier this year at CIRCUITCentre d’art contemporain in Lausanne as part of the exhibition Film as Film, Archive as Creation dedicated to Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos project. Art Cinema OFFoff is honored to be the second venue to present Twice a Man Twice.

The screening of Twice a Man Twice is accompanied by two other films by Markopoulos: Sorrows, an elegant miniature filmed at Wagner’s home on January 22, 1969, and Political Portraits (excerpt), five dynamic portraits of Ulrich Herzog, Marcia Haydée, Giorgio di Chirico, Rudolph Nureyev and Hulda Zumsteg.

→ In collaboration with Cinema Parenthèse that presents the program at Projection Room in Brussels on Sunday, December 14.

Gregory Markopoulos — Sorrows

Set to music by Beethoven, this lyrical portrait moves from a chilled and misty exterior to the crystalline interior of the Swiss chateau that King Ludwig II built for Wagner and his family.

Sorrows — © Temenos

Gregory Markopoulos — Twice a Man Twice

This sensual film, with music by Tchaikovsky, is based on the myth of the asexual Hippolytus, who fell from his horse due to the whims of jealous gods. Markopoulos aimed for a refined balance between narrative, editing, mise en scène and sound. His consistent aestheticism and the psychodramatic complexity of his films lend him a unique status in the history of the American avant-garde.

Twice a man — © Temenos

Gregory Markopoulos — Political Portraits

The original version of Political Portraits consists of 23 portraits, each lasting 3 minutes. Temenos preserves a segment of five portraits of Ulrich Herzog, Marcia Haydée, Giorgio di Chirico, Rudolph Nureyev and Hulda Zumsteg. Markopoulos said of the portraits:“I call them political portraits in the Greek sense, daily living.”

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Political portraits — © Temenos

Lausanne2 — Twice a Man Twice, Lausanne 2025

Lausanne3 — Twice a Man Twice, Lausanne 2025

Lausanne — Twice a Man Twice, Lausanne 2025

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