His 1968 article "Towards a Constructive Complex in Projection" developed this idea, describing it as something similar to a Greek amphitheatre with multiple screens.
He considered two villages in Switzerland, Disentis in the Rhine valley and Lü in Val Müstair, but was concerned that they did not have the "Greek Spirit".
[8] After plans fell through for an event at a grove near Tripoli, Markopoulos held the first Temenos screening at Rayi Spartias in 1980.
[9] He began to screen his films exclusively at Rayi Spartias and called the site a temenos, in reference to Ancient Greek religious practices.
His partner Robert Beavers began showing Markopoulos's films and formed a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and distributing them.
[11] The splices in the original copy of Eniaios became unglued and required an extensive reconstruction effort so it could be printed and screened.
[13] Since the 2004 event, the film's cycles have premiered at Rayi Spartias on a quadrennial basis, with the 2020 screening delayed to 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.