MAKE LIFE BEAUTIFUL
Alex Kitnick on the art of Wolfgang Tillmans
KICKING AND STREAMING
Erika Balsom on Irma Vep
INTO THE STORM
Alexandro Segade on the Ororocene
New Beginnings
A first look at the 60th New York Film Festival
Pharoah Sanders (1940–2022)
David Grundy on Pharoah Sanders
Harvest Moon
The 17th Istanbul Biennial’s audacious return to form
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PRINT November 2004
IDYLL WORSHIP: GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS’S ENIAIOS
P. Adams Sitney
An eighty-hour film? It may sound utterly mad, and yet such is—in the words of P. Adams Sitney—“the most uncompromising and perhaps most demanding film ever made,” Gregory J. Markopoulos’s Eniaios, 1947–91. “Idyll Worship,” Sitney’s essay on this masterwork of avant-garde cinema, was published in Artforum in November 2004. In the summer of that year, the film scholar had attended a screening of Eniaios’s first installments that was held outdoors over three evenings in the hills outside Lyssaraia, a small village in Greece. Markopoulos died in 1992, leaving the film cut but unprinted. His partner,