Gregory J. Markopoulos
Gregory J. Markopoulos (March 12, 1928 - November 12, 1992) was an American experimental filmmaker. Born in Toledo, Ohio to Greek immigrant parents, Markopoulos began making 8 mm films at an early age. He attended USC Film School in the late 1940s, and went on to become a co-founder — with Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage and others — of the New American Cinema movement. He was as well a contributor to Film Culture magazine, and an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1967, he and his partner Robert Beavers left the United States for permanent residence in Europe. Once ensconced in self-imposed exile, Markopoulos withdrew his films from circulation, refused any interviews, and insisted that a chapter about him be removed from the second edition of Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney's seminal study of American avant-garde cinema. While he continued to make films, his work went largely unseen for almost 30 years.
48 directing credits · 20 acting credits
Directing · 48
Gammelion
1968
Serenity
1961
Twice a Man
1963
Genius
1970
Swain
1950
Himself as Herself
1967
The Illiac Passion
1967
Christmas U.S.A.
1949
Galaxie
1966
Gilbert and George
1975
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
1965
Eros, O Basileus
1967
Ming Green
1966
Twice A Man Twice
1967
Lysis
1949
Sorrows
1969
Heracles
1973
Bliss
1967
Flowers of Asphalt
1951
Psyche
1948
The Mysteries
1968
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
1964
The Dead Ones
1967
Eldora
1953
Hulda Zumsteg
1969
A Christmas Carol
1940
The Olympian
1969
Prosopographia
1976
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
1967
Charmides
1949
(A)lter (A)ction
1968
Jackdaw
1950
Doldertal 7
1971
Hagiographia
1970
Der Schachtel
1968
Cimabue! Cimabue!
1971
Alph
1970
Moment
1970
Political Portraits
1969
Index – Hans Richter
1973
35, boulevard General Koenig
1971
The Divine Damnation
1972
Eniaios
1997
Hagiographia II
1973
Saint Acteon
1971
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
1966
Bliss (Eniaios edit)
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Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
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Acting · 20
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
From the Notebook of...
1972
Heads
1969
Birth of a Nation
1997
The Hedge Theater
2002
Swain
1950
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964
The Painting
1972
The Illiac Passion
1967
Dionysus
1964
Winged Dialogue
1967
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
1965
Early Monthly Segments
2003
Sotiros
2000
The Dead Ones
1967
A Christmas Carol
1940
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
1987
Political Portraits
1969
Spiracle
1967
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
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